. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 248 R. Hutterer A possibly related species from the Pleistocene of North Africa It is now clear that the Pleistocene shrew of the Sicilian-Maltese archipelago evolved to the present-day forms. However, the origin of the Pleistocene shrew itself is not known. Vogel (1988) proposed a relationship between C sicula and the Canarian endemic C. canariensis (Hutterer et al. 1987), an assumption which was supported by Maddalena (1990), and Maddalena & Vogel (1990). Howe
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 248 R. Hutterer A possibly related species from the Pleistocene of North Africa It is now clear that the Pleistocene shrew of the Sicilian-Maltese archipelago evolved to the present-day forms. However, the origin of the Pleistocene shrew itself is not known. Vogel (1988) proposed a relationship between C sicula and the Canarian endemic C. canariensis (Hutterer et al. 1987), an assumption which was supported by Maddalena (1990), and Maddalena & Vogel (1990). However, Michaux et al. (1991) recently found fossils of C canariensis in an Upper Pleistocene deposit of Fuerteven- tura, showing that the Canary shrew formed a separate lineage since at least years. Hutterer (1987) and Mohna & Hutterer (1989) found morphological similari- ties between C. canariensis and the North African C. whitakeri and C. tarfayaensis. It is hkely that all four species form one clade. An extinct, yet undescribed species may be added to this tentative clade. It is characterized by an extremely enlarged parastyle at P^, which one may interpret as the exaggerated condition of the brick-like parastyle found in C. sicula. I therefore hypothesize that the new fossil may represent an ancestor of some of the species of the C. sicula group. A brief diagnosis of the new taxon is given below to announce its former existence, however, a more comprehensive description will be given later in a paper on fossil shrews of Fig. 5: Crocidura maghrebiana n. sp., holotype SMF 86/156, frontal part of skull and left and right P"^ in labial view. Scales represent 1 mm; hatched areas indicate missing parts (left P"*) or parts covered by Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origi
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