Sorex portenkoi Stroganov 1956

• 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 portenkoi; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Anadyr'; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7292642; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292642

Sorex portenkoi Stroganov, 1956. Proc. Inst. Biol. W. Siberian Branch Acad. Sci. USSR, Zool., 1:11 -14. TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Koryaksk. Auv. Okr. "bliz pos Anadyr', poberejhe Anadyrsk limana [near Anadyr' settlement, shore of Anadyr' estuary]." DISTRIBUTION: NE Siberia. COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex. Originally described as a subspecies of cinereus and treated as such by Yudin (1972) and Okhotina (1977), then included in ugyunak (Ivanitskaya and Kozlovskii, 1985), but recently recognized as a distinct species by Zaitsev (1988), and van Zyli de Jong (1991b), who, however, pointed out its close relationship to jacksoni and ugyunak. 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 119, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353085