The lack of distinct morphological features of cryptic species is a hard problem for taxonomy,
especially when the taxa are closely related with considerable amounts of ancestral …

Sri Lanka has a rich diversity of shrews: ten species in four genera, with two genera and five
species endemic to the island. In the current study we use complete cytochrome-b …

Five specimens of the genus Crocidura were collected from the Moxinjian Provincial Nature
Reserve of Chun'an city in Zhejiang Province and from the Dongjiangyuan Provincial Nature …

Repeated sea-level fluctuations during and prior to the Pleistocene had a dramatic effect on
the distribution of land and connection among islands between the Asian and Australian …

The taxonomy of the pigmy shrews Suncus fellowesgordoni and S. etruscus is unclear and
their phylogenetic relationships are unknown. Using molecular and morphological data, we …

Many peninsulas in the temperate zone played an important role as refugia of various flora
and fauna, and the southern Korean Peninsula also served as a refugium for many small …

We discovered a new Crocidura species of shrew (Soricidae: Eulipotyphla) from Narcondam
Island, India by using both morphological and molecular approaches. The new species …

São Tomé and Príncipe are unique islands off the Gulf of Guinea on account of the high
degree of endemism in these areas due to isolation. These islands are known to harbor …

A new species of the large shrew, Beremendia jiangnanensis sp. nov., is described here.
The materials were excavated from the Early Pleistocene deposits of Renzidong Cave …

With a distribution ranging from mainland Southeast Asia to the Sunda region, the silvered
langur species group is the most widely distributed species complex of the genus …