Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766

Description

Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766. Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:73.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Altaisky Krai, near Barnaul.

DISTRIBUTION: W. Europe to Yenesei River and Lake Baikal, south through Altai and Tien Shan Mtns.; west to Nepal, N. China (SW).

COMMENT: An isolated population in the Tien Shan Mtns., heptopotamicus, is considered a distinct species by some authors (JAJ and RSH). Formerly included gracillimus, which is regarded as specifically distinct by all Russian authors; see Corbet, 1978:19-20, who also included planiceps and thibetanus; but see Dolgov and Hoffmann, 1977, Zool. Zh., 56: 16871692, and Hutterer, 1979, Z. Saugetierk., 44:65-80. S. volnuchini may represent a distinct species based on its karyotype; see Orlov and Kozlovsky, 1971, Vestn. Moscow Univ., Biol., 2: 12- 16.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018023001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 95, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001

Files

Files (1.3 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:952e78560ae2f92e3e6dc6f66f21eeed
1.3 kB Download

System files (8.4 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:3dfe79233f89091c8afa56264bd8b28f
8.4 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Insectivora
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Species
minutus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Dolgov, V. A., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1977. Tibetskaya burozubka- - Sorex thibetanus Kastchenko, 1905 (Soricidae Mammalia). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 46: 1687 - 1692 (in Russian).
  • Orlov, V. N., and A. I. Kozlovsky. 1971. A synopsis of chromosome complements of shrews of the genus Sorex. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Biologia i Pocvovedenie, 1971: 12 - 16 (in Russian).