Voyta L.L., Zazhigin V.S., Kryuchkova L.Yu. 2021. Fossil soricids (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) in collection of Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN, Russia, Moscow): actual data on 2021 // Russian J. Theriol. Vol.20. No.2. P.136–142 [in English].
Leonid L. Voyta [leonid.voyta@zin.ru], Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia; Vladimir S. Zazhigin [zazhvol@gmail.com], Geological Institute of the Rus- sian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow 109017, Russia; Lyudmila Yu. Kryuchkova [2106@list.ru], Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
doi: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.20.2.03
ABSTRACT. This note represents actual information on the composition of currently investigated Neogene and Pleistocene collections of soricid shrews permanently stored in collections of the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN, Russia, Moscow), clarification of the collection catalogue numbers of the keeping specimens and short collectors information. At present, most shrew type specimens (e.g., Shargainosorex angustirostris) and some other specimens (n = 36) from the GIN fossil collection, which were investigated from 2016 to 2021, have 3D digital image stacks (preliminary data sets) that had been obtained using computed microtomography. All of the 3D digital image stacks of the GIN specimens are keeping in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN, Russia, Saint Petersburg) digital repository. The paper represents technical information on each digitized item.
KEY WORDS: mammals, Soricidae, palaeotheriological collection, digital repository, collection catalogue numbers, computed microtomography.