Sorex Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex

description: <i>Sorex</i> Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:53. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Sorex araneus</i> Linnaeus, 1758. SYNONYMS: <i>Amphisorex, Atophyrax,</i> <i>Corsira, Eurosorex, Homalurus,</i> <i>Microsorex, Musaraneus, Neosorex, Ognevia, Otisorex,</i> <i>Oxyrhin, Soricidus, Stroganovia.</i> COMMENTS: Type genus of Soricidae. The systematic relationships of a large number of Holarctic species were studied by George (1988); her proposals for subgeneric allocation are mainly followed here. Keys and/or reviews are available for the species of various geographical areas: Canada (van Zyll de Jong, 1983a); North and Middle America (Junge and Hoffmann, 1981; Carraway, 1990); China (Hoffmann, 1987); Siberia (Yudin, 1989); and Europe (Niethammer and Krapp, 1990). <i>Microsorex</i> was formerly regarded as a full genus, then reduced to a subgenus of <i>Sorex</i> by Diersing (1980b), and is now regarded as a synonym of subgenus <i>Otisorex</i> (see George, 1988). The subgenus <i>Amphisorex</i> (type species <i>Sorex hermanni</i> Duvernoy, 1834) was alternatively listed under <i>Sorex</i> and <i>Neomys</i> by Miller (1912a), Ellermann and Morrison-Scott (1951), and Corbet (1978c). Miller (1912a) stated that the type of <i>Sorex hermanni</i> consisted of a skin of <i>Sorex araneus</i> and <i>a</i> skull of <i>Neomys fodiens.</i> To avoid further confusion, I herewith designate the skin of <i>Sorex hermanni</i> Duvernoy, 1834 as the lectotype, thus making <i>hermanni</i> a synonym of <i>araneus,</i> and <i>Amphisorex</i> a synonym of <i>Sorex.</i> Besides subgenera a number of species groups have been distinguished such as the <i>araneus-arcticus</i> group (Meylan and Hausser, 1973; Hausser et al., 1985), the <i>cinereus</i> group (van Zyll de Jong, 19916), and the <i>vagrans</i> group (Carraway, 1990), the boundaries and contents of which are still highly controversial. Old World species of <i>Sorex</i> were reviewed by Dannelid (19916) who provided a phylogenetic hypothesis of relationships.
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 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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