. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. Fig. 4 Lateral view of mandible from top of C. attenuata BM(NH), C. hilliana BM(NH) and C. fuliginosa BM(NH) of C. attenuata either amongst the owl pellet remains from Loei Province or from remains found at M. lyra roosts in Thung Yai-Huai Kha Khaeng. It is therefore uncertain if C. hilliana is sympatric with either C. fuliginosa or C. attenuata. Crocidura hilliana does, however, occur sympatrically with a smaller species of Crocidura which proved difficult to determine from the fragmentary skulls in the owl pelle
. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology. Fig. 4 Lateral view of mandible from top of C. attenuata BM(NH), C. hilliana BM(NH) and C. fuliginosa BM(NH) of C. attenuata either amongst the owl pellet remains from Loei Province or from remains found at M. lyra roosts in Thung Yai-Huai Kha Khaeng. It is therefore uncertain if C. hilliana is sympatric with either C. fuliginosa or C. attenuata. Crocidura hilliana does, however, occur sympatrically with a smaller species of Crocidura which proved difficult to determine from the fragmentary skulls in the owl pellets. Allen & Coolidge (1940) collected C. vorax (currently grouped with C. pullata Miller, 1911 from the Himalayas, see Hutterer, 1993) from northwestern Thailand, while a speci- men from Lat Bua Kao, mainland Thailand, attributed to C. fuliginosa by Kloss (1919) is also an example of C. p. vorax. Several skulls attributable to this species were found in the owl pellets from Loei, while a good series was recovered from the M. lyra prey remains from Thung Yai-Huai Kha Khaeng, where an additional skull was found in the faeces of a large carnivore. The only other species of Crocidura listed by Lekagul & McNeely (1977) from mainland Thailand was C. horsfieldii indochinensis from Chiang Mai and Khao Yai National Park . Most recently, Davison (1984), recorded C. monticola from penisular Thailand. Neither of the last two species mentioned above were identified from either area, although pellets from Loei Province contained another shrew Suncus etruscus (Savi, 1822), plus a variety of rodent and bat species. Since there has been so little systematic collection in Thailand, it is impossible to make categoric statements about the new species, however it seems likely that it is relatively localised in its distribution. Even in areas where collecting Fig. 5 Lateral view of left anterior dentition. Left: upper toothrow (I1 to P4); right: lower toothrow (I, to P4). Top: C. attenuata B
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