Sorex isodon Turov 1924

• Main Authors: Jo, Yeong-Seok, Baccus, John T., Koprowski, John L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Soricomorpha; Soricidae; Sorex; Sorex isodon; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571113; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A0BE3B6411FFA3FF4FFF0EFD67560F

Sorex isodon Turov, 1924 —Taiga Shrew Sorex araneus tomensis isodon Turov, 1924 p.111; Type locality- Lake Baikal, Russia. S. gravesi Goodwin, 1933 p.3; Type locality-Monoma River, Eastern Siberia, Russia. S. araneus : Han, 1994 p.45; Won & Smith, 1999 p.9. S. isodon : Han, 2004a p.33. Range: The first collection of S. isodon occurred in 1999 on Mt. Odae in South Korea, but previous records in North Korea, possibly mistakenly identified genuine S. isodon as S. unguiculatus (Ohdachi & Han 2005). If the North Korean records represent S. isodon, the distribution would range throughout higher mountain ranges from central Korea northward into northern North Korea (Kim et al. 2015; Fig. 14). Remarks: Previously, S. isodon was classified as a subspecies of S. araneus or S. sinalis . Since the name isodon had a prior use for an infrasubspecific taxon ( Sorex araneus tomensis isodon ), ‘ Turov, 1924 ’, isodon was considered an invalid name by Corbet (1978). Therefore, gravesi Goodwin, 1933 preceded isodon Stroganov, 1936 as a species name. However, Hoffmann (1987) recommended the use of ‘ Sorex isodon Turov, 1924 ’ as an available name retaining the commonly used isodon instead of the unfamiliar gravesi . Hutterer (2005b) adopted Hoffmann’s recommendation. We followed this suggestion. 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 pages 28-29, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2610198