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Serezkaya White-toothed Shrew

Crocidura serezkyensis

French: Crocidure du Sarez / German: Kleine Felsen-Weil3zahnspitzmaus / Spanish: Musarana de rocas menor

Other common names: Lesser Rock Shrew, Lesser Rock White-toothed Shrew

Taxonomy. Crocidura serezkyensis Laptev, 1929,

Lake Sarezskoye, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan.

Evidence retrieved from morphology fea- tures classifies C. serezkyensis in the C. pergrisea group. Reliable data on geographical variation are lacking because available materialis limited. Monotypic.

Distribution. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

Descriptive notes. Head-body 63-68 mm, tail 53-56 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. The Serezkaya Whitetoothed Shrew is medium-sized and lightly built. Tail is 75-85% of head-body length. Pelage is bicolored. Dorsum is silvery gray, with smoky blue tint in juveniles;silvery gray becomes brown-tinted in adults. Venter is pure white or grayish/bluish white. Tail is weakly bicolored (smoky or brownish gray above and off-white below) in juveniles and unicolored (grayish white on both sides) in adults.

Habitat. Rock slides or near outcrops, often in subalpine belt.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. No information.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. The Serezkaya White-toothed Shrew is extremely rare, with only ¢.20 captures in different geographical regions. It might be difficult to capture with typical techniques such as pitfall traps.

Bibliography. Bekenov et al. (1985), Isakov (1992a), Stogov (1985), Tokmergenov et al. (2002), Zaitsev (1991), Zaitsev et al. (2014)