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Sorex hoyi Baird 1857

Description

Sorex hoyi Baird, 1857. Mammalia, in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):32.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Racine, Wisconsis."

DISTRIBUTION: N taiga zone of Alaska, Canada and the USA, with S outliers in the montane forests of the Appalachian and Rocky Mtns.

SYNONYMS: alnorum, eximius, intervectus, montanus, thompsoni, washingtoni, winnemana.

COMMENTS: Formerly in Microsorex, which is a synonym of subgenus Otisorex, according to George (1988). Includes thompsoni (Diersing, 1980b). Reviewed by Long (1974, Mammalian Species, 33) and Junge and Hoffmann (1981).

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 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Baird
Species
hoyi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex hoyi Baird, 1857 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • George, S. B. 1988. Systematics, historical biogeography, and evolution of the genus Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy, 69: 443 - 461.
  • Diersing, V. A. 1980 b. Systematics and evolution of the pygmy shrews (subgenus Microsorex) of North America. Journal of Mammalogy, 61: 76 - 101.
  • Long, C. A. 1974. Microsorex hoyi and Microsorex thompsoni. Mammalian Species, 33: 1 - 4.
  • 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.