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Sorex jacksoni Hall and Gilmore 1932

Description

Sorex jacksoni Hall and Gilmore, 1932. Univ. California Pubi. Zool., 38:392.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Sevoonga, 2 miles east of North Cape, St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska."

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from St. Lawrence Isl (Bering Sea).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex. Placed in the arcticus species group by Hall and Gilmore (1932) and in the cinereus species group by Hoffmann and Peterson (1967). Separated from cinereus by Junge and Hoffmann (1981). Van Zyll de Jong (1982) included leucogaster (= beringianus), portenkoi, and ugyunak in this species, but van Zyll de Jong (1991 b) retained all three as distinct.

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 116, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Hall and Gilmore
Species
jacksoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex jacksoni and, 1932 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Hall, E. R., and R. M. Gilmore. 1932. New mammals from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska. University of California Publications in Zoology, 38: 391 - 404.
  • Hoffmann, R. S., and R. S. Peterson. 1967. Systematics and zoogeography of Sorex in the Bering Strait area. Systematic Zoology, 16: 127 - 136.
  • 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.
  • van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1982. Relationships of amphiberingian shrews of the Sorex cinereus group. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 60: 1580 - 1587.
  • 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.