Order Soricomorpha Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 220 311 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Crocidura horsfieldii Tomes 1856 Crocidura horsfieldii Tomes 1856 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 17: 23 . Type Locality: Sri Lanka . Vernacular Names: Horsfield's Shrew . Synonyms: Crocidura myoides Blanford 1875 ; Crocidura retusa Peters 1870 . Distribution: Sri Lanka and Indian Peninsula (Mysore and Ladak), perhaps Nepal (see below). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subspecies or synonyms discussed by Jenkins (1976) and Jameson and Jones (1977) . Usually spelled horsfieldi but Corbet and Hill (1991) correctly used horsfieldii . Formerly also included indochinensis and wuchihensis , but see under those species. Formerly included also kurodai and tadae from Taiwan , but they show a karyotype (2n = 40, FN = 54; Fang et al., 1997 ) different from [ horsfieldii ] indochinensis (2n = 38, FN = 48; Rao and Aswathanarayana, 1978 ). Here they are both included in rapax . The distribution of horsfieldii sensu strictu is still a matter of disagreement. Lunde et al. (2003 b ) restricted its distribution to Sri Lanka and adjacent peninsular India .