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Sorex cinereus Kerr 1792

Description

Sorex cinereus Kerr, 1792. Anim. Kingdom, p. 206.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, Ft. Severn, at mouth of Severn River.

DISTRIBUTION: Anadyr to Kamchatka and Kurile Isis. (Paramushir) (N. E. Siberia); N. America throughout Alaska and Canada and southward along the Rocky and Appalachian Mtns, to 45 degrees.

COMMENT: Includes beringianus; see Okhotina, 1977, Acta Theriol. 22:191 -206, and Corbet, 1978:22. Does not include haydeni, fontinalis, and jacksoni; see Junge and Hoffmann, 1981, Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas 94:1 -48, and references cited therein. Gureev, 1979:349, listed beringianus and jacksoni as distinct species without comment.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018008001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Kerr
Species
cinereus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex cinereus Kerr, 1792 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Okhotina, M. V. 1977. Palaearctic shrew of the subgenus Otisorex: Biotopic preference, population number, taxonomic revision and distribution history. Acta Theriologica, 22: 191 - 206.
  • Junge, J. A., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1981. An annotated key to the long-tailed shrews (genus Sorex) of the United States and Canada, with notes on Middle American Sorex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 94: 1 - 48.
  • Gureev, A. A. 1979. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayutschie, tom. 4, vyp. 2. Nasekomoyadnye ... [Fauna of the USSR, Mammals, vol. 4, pt. 2. Insectivores (Mammalia, Insectivora)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 501 pp. (in Russian).