---
title: "Westliche Gartenspitzmaus"
description: "Crocidura fimbriata — Säugetiere. Güldenstädt's shrew (Crocidura gueldenstaedtii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/south-european-white-toothed-shrew
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Westliche Gartenspitzmaus

> Crocidura fimbriata — Säugetiere. Güldenstädt's shrew (Crocidura gueldenstaedtii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

- Scientific name: *Crocidura fimbriata*
- Category: `mammals` (Säugetiere)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 460
- iNaturalist taxon: [1655578](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1655578)

## Names

- en: South European White-toothed Shrew
- de: Westliche Gartenspitzmaus

## Countries with the most observations

IT (80), CZ (25), DE (23), AT (20), SK (6), BG (4), HU (4), PL (4), HR (3), RO (3)

## Summary

Güldenstädt's shrew (Crocidura gueldenstaedtii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the lesser white-toothed shrew (C. suaveolens), but more recent studies support it being a distinct species. It is named after Johann Anton Güldenstädt.
It has a wide range throughout Europe, from Spain west to Russia, and south through the Caucasus to the Middle East, as far south as the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Mummified shrews from the beginning of the Ptolemaic Period at Quesna, Egypt, have also been identified to this species, indicating that it once occurred in the Nile…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCldenst%C3%A4dt%27s_shrew

## Photo

![Westliche Gartenspitzmaus](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/south-european-white-toothed-shrew/medium.jpg)

Photo: Francesco Cecere · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13707187

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/south-european-white-toothed-shrew?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).