Sorex isodon Turov 1924

• Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Insectivora; Soricidae; Sorex; Sorex isodon; Pacific; Norway; Kamchatka; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7204953; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7204953

Sorex isodon Turov, 1924. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 111. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Buryat-Mongolsk A.S.S. R., Barguzin Ridge, N. E. corner of Lake Baikal, Sosnovka. DISTRIBUTION: S. E. Norway and Finland through Siberia to the Pacific coast; Kamchatka; Sakhalin Isl.; Kurile Isis.; N.E. China (SW). COMMENT: Possibly conspecific with sinalis; see Corbet, 1978:22, who included gravesi and ruthenus with sinalis. Dolgov, 1964, Zool. Zh., 43:893-903; Siivonen, 1969, Aquilo Ser. Zool., 7:42-49; and Kozlovskii and Orlov, 1971, Zool. Zh., 50: 1056-1062 provided evidence of specific distinctness and validity of the name isodon. Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 93, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353001