Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann 1780

Description

Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780. Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:385.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Yenisei"; given by Stroganov (1957:176) as "iz raiona sela Kiiskow chto na r. Kie (nyne g. Mariinsk Kemerovskoi oblasti)" [= Russia, Kemerovsk. Obi., Mariinsk (= Kiiskoe), bank of Kiia River (near Yenesei River)]; Restricted by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:23) to "Krasnoyarskii kr., Krasnoyarsk."

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone from Norway, Sweden and Estonia to E Siberia; Sakhalin; Hokkaido, and perhaps Honshu (Japan); Mongolia; China; South Korea.

SYNONYMS: abnormis, barabensis, burneyi, czekanovskii, caudata, exilis, hawkeri, ishikawai, karelicus, minimus, neglectus, perminutus, stroganovi, tscherskii, tschuktschorum, ussuriensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex or Eurosorex. Yoshiyuki (1988a) recognized nine subspecies.

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 117, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Zimmermann
Species
minutissimus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Stroganov, S. U. 1957. Zveri Sibiri. Nasekomoyadnye. [Animals of Siberia. Insectivores]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 267 pp.
  • Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).
  • Yoshiyuki, M. 1988 a. Taxonomic status of the least red-toothed shrew (Insectivora, Soricidae) from Korea. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), ser. A, 14: 151 - 158.