Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792
Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792 Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792, Animal Kingdom: 206. Type Locality: Canada, Ontario, settlement on Severn River (now Fort Severn), Hudson Bay. Vernacular Names: Arctic Shrew. Subspecies:: Subspecies Sorex (Sorex) arcticus subsp. arcticus Kerr 1792 Subspecies Sorex...
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| Summary: | Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792 Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792, Animal Kingdom: 206. Type Locality: Canada, Ontario, settlement on Severn River (now Fort Severn), Hudson Bay. Vernacular Names: Arctic Shrew. Subspecies:: Subspecies Sorex (Sorex) arcticus subsp. arcticus Kerr 1792 Subspecies Sorex (Sorex) arcticus subsp. laricorum Jackson 1925 Distribution: Yukon and Northwest Territory to Quebec (Canada); Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota (USA). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Sorex . S. arcticus group. Reviewed by Kirkland and Schmidt (1996, Mammalian Species No. 524). Karyotype has 2n = 28/29, FN = 38. Palearctic species currently referred to arcticus (Gromov and Baranova, 1981:18) represent tundrensis (Ivanitskaya et al., 1986; Junge et al., 1983); see also Sokolov and Orlov (1980), Okhotina (1983), and Hoffmann (1985 a ). Formerly included maritimensis , but see Stewart et al. (2002). Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, pp. 220-311 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 284, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 |
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