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Blarina brevicauda

Description

Blarina brevicauda (Say, 1823). In Long, Account Exped. Pittsburgh to Rocky Mtns, 1:164.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Engineer cantonment, west bank of the Missouri R.; restricted to Nebraska, Washington Co., approximately 2 miles east Ft. Calhoun by Jones (1964:68).

DISTRIBUTION: S Canada west to C Saskatchewan and east to SE Canada, south to Nebraska and N Virginia (USA).

SYNONYMS: aloga, angusta, angusticeps, churchi, compacta, costaricensis, dekayi, fossilis, hooperi, kirtlandi, manitobensis, micrurus, ozarkensis, pallida, simplicidens, talpoides, telmalestes.

COMMENTS: Includes telmalestes (see review by George et al., 1986, Mammalian Species, 261), which Hall (1981:57) listed as a distinct species.

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 106, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Blarina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Say
Species
brevicauda
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Blarina brevicauda (Say, 1823) sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Jones, J. K., Jr. 1964. Distribution and taxonomy of mammals of Nebraska. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 16: 1 - 356.
  • George, S. B., J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1986. Blarina brevicauda. Mammalian Species, 261: 1 - 9.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.