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Sorex saussurei Merriam 1892

Description

Sorex saussurei Merriam, 1892. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 7:173.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Sierra de Colima, Jalisco, Mexico, (altitude 8000 feet)".

DISTRIBUTION: Coahuila and Durango to Chiapas (Mexico); Guatemala.

SYNONYMS: cristobalensis, godmani, oaxacae, salvini, veraecrucis.

COMMENTS: Referred to unnamed subgenus by George (1988:456). Populations from Guatemala provisionally included by Junge and Hoffmann (1981) may be distinct and should be carefully studied.

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 120, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Merriam
Species
saussurei
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex saussurei Merriam, 1892 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • George, S. B. 1988. Systematics, historical biogeography, and evolution of the genus Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy, 69: 443 - 461.
  • 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.