Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann 1780

• Main Authors: Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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• Published: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Soricomorpha; Soricidae; Sorex; Sorex minutissimus; Sakhalin; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11342041; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E0FC44D571466578A0364694D18CD27

Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann 1780 Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann 1780, Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 385. Type Locality: "Yenisei"; given by Stroganov (1957:176) as "iz raiona sela Kiiskow chto na r. Kie (nyne g. Mariinsk Kemerovskoi oblasti)" [= Russia, Kemerovsk. Obl., Mariinsk (= Kiiskoe), bank of Kiia River (near Yenesei River)]; Restricted by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:23) to "Krasnoyarskii kr., Krasnoyarsk.". Vernacular Names: Eurasian Least Shrew. Distribution: Taiga zone from Norway, Sweden and Estonia to E Siberia; Sakhalin; Hokkaido, and perhaps Honshu (Japan); Mongolia; China; South Korea. Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Subgenus Sorex or Eurosorex , S. caecutiens group. Karyotype has 2n= 38 (Finland) or 42 (Siberia), FN = 74. Yoshiyuki (1988 a ) recognized nine subspecies, but the evidence seems to be weak, and none is recognized here. Ohdachi et al. (1997 b ) identified a sister relationship between S. minutissimus and S. hosonoi . 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 291, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519