Over on the CFZ Daily News blog we recently ran a story on a New species of shrew identified in Vietnam . We then got this comment:"We have a shrew in school. Can anyone identify? Lombok, Indonesia, photo on http://www.lombokis.com/gallery.html"
We always like to do out best to help, but there are at least 49 species of shrew recorded from Indonesia, and there does not seem to be a Lombok species list online. This is a pity because Lombok, or rather the Lombok Strait which separates the island from Bali, is actually the location of Wallace's Line: the line which divides Asia from Australiasia zoologically. So over to you.
Is there a shrew expert out there? I would love to know the answer to this conundrum.
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