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Sorex tenellus Merriam 1895

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Sorex tenellus Merriam, 1895. N. Am. Fauna, 10:81.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "summit of Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, Owens Valley [Inyo Co.], California, about 45000 ft]."

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of WC Nevada and EC California (USA).

SYNONYMS: myops.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex. Similar to nanus with which it may form an allospecies (Hoffmann and Owen, 1980, Mammalian Species, 131), but George (1988) retained both as separate species on the basis of allozyme frequencies.

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 pages 120-121, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D02513FFC3CF5F134FF5EBD7C3D299

Related works

Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE95D6BFFF0CF6B1249FFB9D255D37F (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03D02513FFC3CF5F134FF5EBD7C3D299 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205131242 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193474/taxon/03D02513FFC3CF5F134FF5EBD7C3D299.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Merriam
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Insectivora
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Species
tenellus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex tenellus Merriam, 1895 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Hoffmann, R. S., and J. G. Owen. 1980. Sorex tenellus and Sorex nanus. Mammalian Species, 131: 1 - 4.
  • George, S. B. 1988. Systematics, historical biogeography, and evolution of the genus Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy, 69: 443 - 461.