Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann 1780

• 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 minutissimus; Norway; Sela; Sakhalin; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7292622; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292622

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. Obi., Mariinsk (= Kiiskoe), bank of Kiia River (near Yenesei River)]; Restricted by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:23) to "Krasnoyarskii kr., Krasnoyarsk." DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone from Norway, Sweden and Estonia to E Siberia; Sakhalin; Hokkaido, and perhaps Honshu (Japan); Mongolia; China; South Korea. SYNONYMS: abnormis, barabensis, burneyi, czekanovskii, caudata, exilis, hawkeri, ishikawai, karelicus, minimus, neglectus, perminutus, stroganovi, tscherskii, tschuktschorum, ussuriensis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex or Eurosorex. Yoshiyuki (1988a) recognized nine subspecies. 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 117, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353085