Taxonomic revision of the long-tailed shrew, Sorex dispar Batchelder, 1911, from the Appalachian Region of North America, with the description of a new subspecies

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Author: Diersing, Victor E
• Other Authors: Carraway, Leslie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019
• Subjects: Nature and Landscape Conservation; Genetics; Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Breton Island; Canso; Goodwin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz127; http://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-pdf/100/6/1837/31569480/gyz127.pdf

Abstract The long-tailed shrew, Sorex dispar Batchelder, 1911, and Gaspe shrew, S. gaspensis Anthony and Goodwin, 1924, from the Appalachian Mountains of North America have been characterized as genetically highly similar, and that one is morphologically a clinal variate of the other, i.e., there is...