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Vol. 36 No. 1, 1997
Short Note
Karyological Study of the Gray Shrew Crocidura attenuata (Mammalia:
Insectivora) from Taiwan
Masaharu
Motokawa1,*, Masashi Harada2, Liang-Kong Lin3,
Kazuhiro Koyasu4 and Shôsaku Hatteri5
1Dept.
of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto 606-01, Japan
2Lab. Animal Center, Osaka City Univ.
Medical School, Osaka 545, Japan
3Lab. of Wildlife Ecology, Dept. of Biology, Tunghai
Univ., Taichung, Taiwan 407
4The Second Dept. of Anatomy, School of Dentistry,
Aichi-Gakuin Univ., Nagoya 464, Japan
5Amami Branch Lab., Inst. of Medical Science, The
Univ. of Tokyo, Kagoshima 894-15, Japan
Masaharu
Motokawa, Masashi Harada, Liang-Kong Lin, Kazuhiro Koyasu and Shôsaku
Hatteri (1997) The conventional, G-band, and C-band karyotypes
of the gray shrew Crocidura attenuata
from Taiwan were investigated. The autosomes consist of 3 meta-or
subrnetacentrlc, 4 subtelocentric and 12 acrocentric pairs. The X and Y
chromosomes are submetacentric and acrocentric, respectively. The
diploid chromosome number and fundamental number were determined
to be 40 and 56, respectively. This karyotype is different from that of
a Thai specimen previously recorded as C. attenuata.
Key words: Crocidura
attenuata, Chromosomal evolution, Taxonomy, Soricidae.
*Correspondence: Tel: 81-75-753-4099, Fax: 81-75-753-41142
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