Sorex ugyunak Anderson and Rand 1945

• 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 ugyunak; Northwest Territories; Hudson Bay; Mackenzie River; Canada; Hudson; Toker Point; Mackenzie river; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7292680; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7292680

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