Sorex ugyunak Anderson and Rand 1945

Sorex ugyunak Anderson and Rand, 1945. Canadian Field Nat., 59:62. TYPE LOCALITY: "Tuktuk (Tuktuyaktok), norhteast side of Mackenzie River delta, south of Toker Point, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada." DISTRIBUTION: Mainland tundra west of Hudson Bay (Canada), and N Alask...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rainer Hutterer
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7292680
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292680
Description
Summary:Sorex ugyunak Anderson and Rand, 1945. Canadian Field Nat., 59:62. TYPE LOCALITY: "Tuktuk (Tuktuyaktok), norhteast side of Mackenzie River delta, south of Toker Point, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada." DISTRIBUTION: Mainland tundra west of Hudson Bay (Canada), and N Alaska (USA). COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex. Formerly included in cinereus, but van Zyll de Jong (1976, 1991 b) provided arguments for a specific destinction of ugyunak; the taxon appears related to jacksoni and portenkoi. See Junge and Hoffmann (1981) and van Zyll de Jong (1983a) for further information. 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 121, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353085