. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 24 R. S. Hoffmann. Fig. 2: Distribution map of Gmelin's white toothed shrew, Crocidura gmelini (Pallas, 1811). Open triangles, specimen records; inverted triangles, literature records (revised from Hoff- mann 1996). Other specimens in The Natural History Museum, London, which I had not yet examined when I recognized gmelini (Hoffmann 1996), are from Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the Arabian Peninsula; Harrison & Bates (1991) discuss these and other specimens from I
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 24 R. S. Hoffmann. Fig. 2: Distribution map of Gmelin's white toothed shrew, Crocidura gmelini (Pallas, 1811). Open triangles, specimen records; inverted triangles, literature records (revised from Hoff- mann 1996). Other specimens in The Natural History Museum, London, which I had not yet examined when I recognized gmelini (Hoffmann 1996), are from Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the Arabian Peninsula; Harrison & Bates (1991) discuss these and other specimens from Iraq which I have not seen and comment: "Possibly a second subspecies [of C. suaveolens] should be recognized within the region since specimens from southern Israel, Sinai and Saudi Arabia appear to be relatively small, as com- pared to northern Israel and Lebanon. If this proves the case, the name portali is available!' Thomas (1920) in describing portali noted its resemblance to C ilensis (= gmelini); I have examined the holotype of portali and concur with Thomas; it is assignable to C. gmelini, as are other specimens from Lebanon, Israel, the Sinai, North Yemen and probably Iraq (Fig. 2); they differ from C. arábica in their unreduc- ed third upper molars (Hutterer & Harrison 1988). There are other records of C. "suaveolens" from Middle Asia (Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq) that, on the basis of geographic location and habitat affinities, can be provisionally assigned to C. gmelini (Kuzyakin, in Bobrinskii et al. 1965). Geographic coordinates of these 40 additional localities can be estimated by digitizing the appropriate dots on Kuzyakin's published map using Arc/Info; the distribution map (Fig. 2) displays the specimen localities referred to here, plus others listed in Hoffmann (1995) as triangles, whereas those localities geocoded from Kuzyakin's map are displayed as inverted triangles. Discussion The database ele
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