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Sorex ugyunak Anderson and Rand 1945
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Sorex ugyunak Anderson and Rand, 1945. Canadian Field Nat., 59:62.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Tuktuk (Tuktuyaktok), norhteast side of Mackenzie River delta, south of Toker Point, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada."
DISTRIBUTION: Mainland tundra west of Hudson Bay (Canada), and N Alaska (USA).
COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex. Formerly included in cinereus, but van Zyll de Jong (1976, 1991 b) provided arguments for a specific destinction of ugyunak; the taxon appears related to jacksoni and portenkoi. See Junge and Hoffmann (1981) and van Zyll de Jong (1983a) for further information.
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 121, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE95D6BFFF0CF6B1249FFB9D255D37F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Sorex
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Insectivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Anderson and Rand
- Species
- ugyunak
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sorex ugyunak and, 1945 sec. Hutterer, 1993
References
- van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1976. A comparison between woodland and tundra forms of the common shrew (Sorex cinereus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 54: 963 - 973.
- 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.
- 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. 1983 a. Handbook of Canadian mammals. Part I. Marsupials and insectivores. National Museum of Natural Sciences (Ottawa), 210 pp.