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Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792

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Sorex arcticus Kerr, 1792. Animal Kingdom, p. 206.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, settlement on Severn River (now Fort Severn), Hudson Bay.

DISTRIBUTION: Yukon and Northwest Territory to Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick (Canada); North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin (USA).

SYNONYMS: laricorum, maritimensis, pachyurus, richardsonii, spagnicola.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex. Palearctic species currently referred to arcticus (Gromov and Baranova, 1981:18) represent tundrensis (Junge et al., 1983; Ivanitskaya et al., 1986); see also Sokolov and Orlov (1980) and Hoffmann (1985«). Van Zyll de Jong (1983b) and Volobouev and van Zyll de Jong (1988) suggested that maritimensis may be an independent 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 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Insectivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Kerr
Species
arcticus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sorex arcticus Kerr, 1792 sec. Hutterer, 1993

References

  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).
  • Junge, J. A., R. S. Hoffmann, and R. W. DeBry. 1983. Relationships within the Holarctic Sorex arcticus-Sorex tundrensis species complex. Acta Theriologica, 28: 339 - 350.
  • Ivanitskaya, E. Yu., A. I. Kozlovskii, N. V. Orlov, Y. M. Kovalskaya, and M. I. Baskevich. 1986. [New data on karyotypes of common shrews (Sorex, Soricidae, Insectivora) in fauna of the USSR.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 65: 1228 - 1236 (in Russian).
  • Sokolov, V. E., and V. N. Orlov. 1980. Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchickh Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki [Guide to the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Nauka, Moscow, 351 pp. (in Russian).
  • van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1983 b. A morphometric analysis of North American shrews of the arcticus group, with special consideration of the taxonomic status of S. a. maritimensis. Nature Canada (Quebec), 110: 373 - 378.
  • Volobouev, V. T., and C. G. van Zyll de Jong. 1988. The karyotype of Sorex arcticus maritimensis (Insectivora, Soricidae) and its systematic implications. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 66: 1968 - 1972.