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Sorex (Sorex) isodon Turov 1924

Description

Sorex (Sorex) isodon Turov 1924

Sorex (Sorex) isodon Turov 1924, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris: 111.

Type Locality: Russia, Siberia, NE of Lake Baikal, Barguzinsk taiga, River Sosovka.

Vernacular Names: Taiga Shrew.

Synonyms: Sorex (Sorex) gravesi Goodwin 1933; Sorex (Sorex) isodon Stroganov 1936; Sorex (Sorex) montanus Skalon and Rajevsky 1940; Sorex (Sorex) montanus Pavlinov, Borisenko, Kruskop and Yahontov 1995; Sorex (Sorex) princeps Skalon and Rajevsky 1940; Sorex (Sorex) ruthenus Stroganov 1936; Sorex (Sorex) sachalinensis Okhotina 1984; Sorex (Sorex) sachalinensis Okhotina 1993.

Distribution: SE Norway and Finland through Siberia to the Pacific coast; Kamchatka; Sakhalin Isl; Kurile Isls; also NE China and Korea (Han et al., 2000 b).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Sorex, S. caecutiens group. Karyotype has 2n = 42, FN = 70. Probably not conspecific with sinalis as suggested by Corbet (1978 c) and Dolgov (1985); see Siivonen (1965) and Hoffmann (1987). Because the well established name isodon Turov is formally not available, and because isodon Stroganov is antedated by gravesi Goodwin, Hoffmann (1987) suggested that isodon be declared the valid name; the case still needs to be submitted to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. The species was reviewed by Sulkava (1990). The recently described isodon marchicus (Passarge, 1984) belongs to araneus; see Brünner et al. (2002 c).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, pp. 220-311 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 289, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Turov
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Species
isodon
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex (Sorex) isodon Turov, 1924 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Okhotina, M. V. 1993. Subspecies taxonomic revision of Far East shrews (Insectivora, Sorex) with the description of new subspecies. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, 242 [1991]: 58 - 71 (in Russian).
  • Han, S. - H., S. Ohdachi, and H. Abe. 2000 b. New records of two Sorex species (Soricidae) from South Korea. Mammal Study, 25: 141 - 144.
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • Dolgov, V. A. 1985. Burozubki Starovo Sveta [Brown-toothed shrews of the Old World]. Moscow University, Moscow, 220 pp. (in Russian).
  • Siivonen, L. 1965. Sorex isodon Turov (1924) and S. unguiculatus Dobson (1890) as independent shrew species. Aquilo (Zool.), 4: 1 - 34.
  • Hoffmann, R. S. 1987. A review of the systematics and distribution of Chinese red-toothed shrews (Mammalia: Soricinae). Acta Theriologica Sinica, 7: 100 - 139.
  • Sulkava, S. 1990. Sorex caecutiens Laxmann, 1788 - Maskenspitzmaus; Sorex isodon Turov, 1924 -- Taigaspitzmaus. Pp. 215 - 236, in Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas (J. Niethammer and F. Krapp, eds.). Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden, 3 / I: 1 - 524.
  • Passarge, H. 1984. Sorex isodon marchicus ssp. nova in Mitteleuropa. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 49: 278 - 284.