Who are you, Griselda? A replacement name for a new genus of the Asiatic short-tailed shrews (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae): molecular and morphological analyses with the discussion of tribal affinities.

The first genetic study of the holotype of the Gansu short-tailed shrew, Thomas, 1912, is presented. The mitochondrial analysis demonstrated that the type specimen of is close to several recently collected specimens from southern Gansu, northern Sichuan and Shaanxi, which are highly distinct from the two species of Asiatic short-tailed shrews of southern Sichuan, Yunnan, and Vietnam, and . Our analysis of four nuclear genes supported the placement of as sister to / , with the level of divergence between these two clades corresponding to that among genera of Soricinae. A new generic name, , is proposed for the Gansu short-tailed shrew. Karyotypes of (2 = 49, NF = 50) and (2 = 49, NF = 62) from southern Gansu are described. The tribal affinities of Blarinellini and Blarinini are discussed.