Systematic study of the Quaternary insectivores in the Japanese Islands.

在日本群岛，从中更新世到全新世以及新石器时代的洞穴和裂缝沉积物中发现了食虫动物的遗骸。遗骸的分类分析和含化石沉积物的地层学研究揭示了第四纪晚期的虫食动物区系演替。中更新世的区系以大量灭绝的鼩鼱（Anourosorex japonicus）和现存的鼩鼱（Urotrichus talpoides）为特征。它还含有灭绝的鼩鼱（Shikamainosorex densicingulata）和刺猬（Erinaceus sp.）。中更新世晚期的动物群除了缺少一些小的元素外，基本上与之前的动物群相同。在晚更新世，已灭绝的鼹鼠鼩数量减少，而在晚更新世早期至晚期，黑尾鼩灭绝。全新世动物群以鼩鼱和鼹鼠（Mogera spp.）为主，但没有灭绝的物种。

In the Japanese Islands, insectivore remains are recovered from cave and fissure sediments of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene age, and from Neolithic sites. Taxonomic analyses of the remains as well as stratigraphic studies of fossil-bearing sediments reveal the insectivore faunal succession during the later part of the Quaternary. The fauna of the middle Middle Pleistocene was characterized by the abundant occurrence of extinct mole-shrew (Anourosorex japonicus) and extant shrew-mole (Urotrichus talpoides). It also contained extinct blarinine shrew (Shikamainosorex densicingulata) and a hedgehog (Erinaceus sp.). The late Middle Pleistocene fauna was essentially identical with that of the preceding time except for the absence of a few minor elements. In the Late Pleistocene, the extinct mole-shrew decreased in number, and the blarinine shrew became extinct between the early and late Late Pleistocene. The Holocene fauna was dominated by the shrew-mole and moles (Mogera spp.), but contained no extinct forms.