Sorex hydrodromus Dobson 1889
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex hydrodromus

description: <i>Sorex hydrodromus</i> Dobson, 1889. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 4:373. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, "Unalaska Islands, Aleutian Islands" (probably in error, presumably from St. Paul, Pribilof Isis). DISTRIBUTION: Known only from St. Paul in the Pribilof Isis, Bering Sea. SYNONYMS: <i>pribilofensis.</i> COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Otisorex.</i> There is some discrepancy in the literature on the correct name for this species. Dobson's <i>hydrodromus</i> has priority, but because of an apparently incorrect type locality information and further inconsistencies in the original description, Hoffmann and Peterson (1967) proposed to suppress <i>hydrodromus</i> in favour of <i>pribilofensis</i> Merriam, 1895, a suggestion followed by van Zyll de Jong (1991 b). However, Yudin (1969), Baranova et al. (1981), Hall (1981), Junge and Hoffmann (1981), and Honacki et al. (1982) retained <i>hydrodromus,</i> while Gureev (1979) listed both <i>hydrodromus</i> and <i>pribilofensis</i> as species. As the holotype of <i>hydrodromus</i> still exists in the St. Petersburg Museum, there seems to be no reason for not following the rule of priority.
description: Published as part of <i>Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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