Suncus etruscus - #5312
Etruscan Shrew
Formerly Soricomorpha.
Geographic Distribution
S Europe and N Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt); Arabian Peninsula and Asia Minor to Iraq, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Yunnan (China); also India and Sri Lanka. West and East African records (Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia) are doubtful and need confirmation.
Order/Family
Soricidae
Genus
Suncus
Specific Epithet
etruscus
Image Location
Germany, Berlin, private zoo
Image Date
6 December 2018
Photographer
KD Rudloff