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Sorex hydrodromus Dobson 1889

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Description

Sorex hydrodromus Dobson, 1889. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 4:373.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, "Unalaska Islands, Aleutian Islands" (probably in error, presumably from St. Paul, Pribilof Isis).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from St. Paul in the Pribilof Isis, Bering Sea.

SYNONYMS: pribilofensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex. There is some discrepancy in the literature on the correct name for this species. Dobson's hydrodromus has priority, but because of an apparently incorrect type locality information and further inconsistencies in the original description, Hoffmann and Peterson (1967) proposed to suppress hydrodromus in favour of pribilofensis Merriam, 1895, a suggestion followed by van Zyll de Jong (1991 b). However, Yudin (1969), Baranova et al. (1981), Hall (1981), Junge and Hoffmann (1981), and Honacki et al. (1982) retained hydrodromus, while Gureev (1979) listed both hydrodromus and pribilofensis as species. As the holotype of hydrodromus still exists in the St. Petersburg Museum, there seems to be no reason for not following the rule of priority.

Notes

Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Dobson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Insectivora
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Species
hydrodromus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex hydrodromus Dobson, 1889 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Hoffmann, R. S., and R. S. Peterson. 1967. Systematics and zoogeography of Sorex in the Bering Strait area. Systematic Zoology, 16: 127 - 136.
  • van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1991 b. Speciation of the Sorex cinereus group. Pp. 65 - 73, in The biology of the Soricidae (J. S. Findley and T. L. Yates, eds.). Special Publication, Museum of Southwestern Biology, 1: 1 - 91.
  • Yudin, B. S. 1969. Taxonomy of some species of shrews (Soricidae) from Palaearctic and Nearctic. Acta Theriologica, 14: 21 - 34.
  • Baranova, G. I., A. A. Gureev, and P. P. Strelkov. 1981. [Catalogue of type specimens in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the USSR, mammals (Mammalia). Part 1. shrews (Insectivora), bats (Chiroptera), hares (Lagomorpha)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 22 pp. (in Russian).
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
  • 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.
  • Honacki, J. H., K. E. Kinman and J. W. Koeppl (eds.). 1982. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference. Allen Press, Inc. and The Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas, 694 pp.
  • 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).