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Sorex palustris Richardson 1828
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Sorex palustris Richardson, 1828. Zool. J., 3:517.
TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, "marshy places, from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains."; not specified.
DISTRIBUTION: Montane and boreal areas of North America below the tree line from Alaska to the Sierra Nevada, Rocky and Appalachian Mtns.
SYNONYMS: acadicus (Allen, not of Gilpin), albibarbis, brooksi, gloveralleni, hydrobadistes, labradorensis, navigator, punctulatus, turneri.
COMMENTS: Formerly placed in genus Neosorex Baird; now in Sorex (Otisorex). Reviewed by Beneski and Stinson (1987, Mammalian Species, 296), who recognized 9 subspecies. They did not include alaskanus as suggested by Junge and Hoffmann (1981:28) and Hall (1981:43); George (1988) also treated alaskanus as distinct.
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 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE95D6BFFF0CF6B1249FFB9D255D37F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Sorex
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Insectivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Richardson
- Species
- palustris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sorex palustris Richardson, 1828 sec. Hutterer, 1993
References
- Beneski, J. T., Jr., and D. W. Stinson. 1987. Sorex palustris. Mammalian Species, 296: 1 - 6.
- 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.
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- George, S. B. 1988. Systematics, historical biogeography, and evolution of the genus Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy, 69: 443 - 461.