Sorex gracillimus Thomas 1907

• Main Author: Rainer Hutterer
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Insectivora; Soricidae; Sorex; Sorex gracillimus; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292583; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D02513FFDECF4512B0FD72D06AD7EE

Sorex gracillimus Thomas, 1907. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1907:408. TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Sakhalin Isl, "Dariné, 25 miles [40 km] N.W. of Korsakoff, Saghalien". DISTRIBUTION: SE Siberia from S shore of the Sea of Okhotsk to N Korea and probably Manchuria; Sakhalin Isl; Hokkaido (Japan). SYNONYMS: hyojironis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex. This species has long been included in minutus but its specific status is now widely accepted on the basis of penial (Dolgov and Lukanova, 1966) and cranial (Hutterer, 1979) morphology, karyotype (Orlov and Bulatova, 1983), and allozyme data (George, 1988). The inclusion of hyojironis follows Corbet (1978c) and is tentative. Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085