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Sorex (Otisorex) jacksoni Hall and Gilmore 1932

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Sorex (Otisorex) jacksoni Hall and Gilmore 1932

Sorex (Otisorex) jacksoni Hall and Gilmore 1932, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 38: 392.

Type Locality: USA, "Sevoonga, 2 miles [3.2 km] east of North Cape, St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska.".

Vernacular Names: St. Lawrence Island Shrew.

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

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Subgenus Otisorex; S. cinereus group (Demboski and Cook, 2003). 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. Rausch and Rausch (1995) included jacksoni as a subspecies in S. cinereus based on identical karyotypes (2n = 66, FN = 70), but Demboski and Cook (2003) found a nonsister relationship between S. cinereus and S. jacksoni in their genetic analysis of the group.

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 290, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hall and Gilmore
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Species
jacksoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex (Otisorex) jacksoni and, 1932 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

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.
  • Demboski, J. R., and J. A. Cook. 2003. Phylogenetic diversification within the Sorex cinereus group (Soricidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 84: 144 - 158.
  • 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.
  • Rausch, R. L., and V. R. Rausch. 1995. The taxonomic status of the shrew of St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea (Mammalia: Soricidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 108: 717 - 728.