Sorex caecutiens Laxmann 1788

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Soricomorpha; Soricidae; Sorex; Sorex caecutiens; Indian; Morrison; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571117; https://zenodo.org/record/4571117

Sorex caecutiens Laxmann, 1788 —Laxmann’s Shrew Sorex caecutiens Laxmann, 1788 p.285; Type locality-southwest shore of Lake Baikal, Russia; Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.48; Corbet, 1978 p.20; Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.9; Han, 2004a p.30. S. macropygmaeus Miller, 1901 p.158. S. annexus Thomas, 1906 p.859. S. caecutiens annexus : Van den Brink, 1953 p.108; Won, 1958 p.450; Jones & Johnson, 1960 p.559; Won, 1967 p.271. S. caecutiens macropygmaeus : Won, 1968 p.56. S. caecutiens caecutiens : Yoon, 1992 p.19. S. caecutiens hallamontanus : Jo et al ., 2012 p.249. Range: As the most common species of the Genus Sorex , S. caecutiens ranges throughout the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island (Jo et al. 2012; Fig. 15). It is locally abundant in the northeastern Korean Peninsula along higher mountain ranges (Kim et al. 2015). Sorex caecutiens also inhabits the region near Seoul. Mt Odae and Mt. Jiri are known as habitats of this species in South Korea (Yoon 1992). Remarks: The subspecific status of S . caecutiens in Korea remains ambiguous ( S. c. annexus Jones and Johnson, 1960 S. c. macropygmaeus Miller, 1901 ). The first collection of Laxmann’s shrew on Jeju Island occurred in 1994 (Ohdachi et al. 2003; Jo et al. 2012). Ten years later, Ohdachi et al . (2005) assigned a new Subspecies Sorex caecutiens hallamontanus Abe and Oh, 2005, to the population on Jeju Island. The Jeju subspecies has morphological similarity with S . shinto , but DNA data grouped the Jeju subspecies with S . caecutiens (Ohdachi et al . 2005). Also, populations of S. caecutiens from Korea clustered with populations on Sakhalin Island based on cytochrome b analysis (Ohdachi et al. 2003). : Published as part of Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T. & Koprowski, John L., 2018, Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status, pp. 1-216 in Zootaxa 4522 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198 : {"references": ["Laxmann, E. (1788) Sorex caecutiens. Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, Tomus, 3, 285 - 286.", "Ellerman, J. R. & Morrison-Scott, T. C. S. (1951) Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Corbet, G. B. (1978) The mammals of the Palaearctic region: a taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.", "Han, S. H. (1994) The checklist of Mammals in North Korea. Nature Conservation, 86, 44 - 50. [in Korean]", "Won, C. M. & Smith, K. G. 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