The average length and height of the skull were 42.5 mm and 15.7 mm, respectively. The height of the skull was approximately 37% of the length of the skull in mole-rats (spalax leucodon Nordmann). The average greatest breadth and the greatest height of the for. magnum were 6.9 mm and 6.1 mm, respectively. The dental formula on one half of the upper and lower jaw was I1, C0, P0, M3 / I1, C0, P0,...

We karyotyped and sequenced 1,140 base pairs of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b of a specimen of Zarudny’s rock shrew (Crocidura zarudnyi) from Baluchestan, southeastern Iran, to clarify its cytogenetic and molecular relationships with other Eurasian species of Crocidura. According to the karyotype (2N 1⁄4 40, FN 1⁄4 50), Zarudny’s rock shrew belongs to the group of the lesser white-toothed ...

This study investigated geographic variation in the Asian lesser white-toothed shrew, Crocidura shantungensis Miller, 1901, among a number of localities in East Asia, including the Korean Peninsula, Tsushima Island, Cheju Island, and Taiwan, using univariate and multivariate analyses of cranial morphometric characters. Sexual differences were found in Taiwanese shrews, but were not evident in t...

The Nicobar Shrew Crocidura nicobarica (Miller, 1902) is an endemic and ‘Critically Endangered’ species restricted to Great Island in the Andaman Sea, India. Predation instance on by a Cattle Egret reported herewith for first time littoral forests near Govind Nagar, Island.

Three new species from the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas are added to the acanthodrilid earthworm genus Ramiellona, R. microscolecina sp. nov., R. tojolabala sp. nov. and R. teapaensis sp. nov. They belong to a group of species with penial setae and last pair of hearts in segment 12. All are holandric and the spermathecae have either a flat circular diverticle in a segment anterior to t...

Recent research of blind mole rats of the species complex Nannospalax (superspecies leucodon) identified a small and fragmented population of these rodents on both sides of the Hungarian-Serbian border. Cytogenetic investigations proved that this population karyologically identical with the Vojvodina blind mole rat described earlier as Nannospalax (leucodon) montanosyrmiensis. Based on cytochro...

We investigated dispersal patterns in the monogamous Crocidura russula, based both on direct field observations (mark-recapture data) and on genetic analyses (microsatellite loci). Natal dispersal was found to be low. Most juveniles settled within their natal territory or one immediately adjacent. Migration rate was estimated to two individuals per year and per population. The correlation betwe...

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