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

description: <i>Sorex araneus</i> Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:53. TYPE LOCALITY: <i>"in</i> Europe <i>cryptis";</i> restricted to Uppsala, Sweden by Thomas (1911a:143). DISTRIBUTION: C, E, and N Europe including the British Isis (with some isolated populations in France, Italy and Spain), east to Siberia. SYNONYMS: <i>alticola, antinorii, bergensis, bohemicus, bolkayi, carpathicus, castaneus, concinnus, crassicaudatus, csikii, daubentonii, eleonorae, grantii, hermanni, huelleri, ignotus, iochanseni, labiosus, macrotrichus, marchicus, melanodon, mollis, monsvairani, nigra, nuda, ryphaeus, pallidus, personatus, petrovi, peucinius, preussi, pulcher, pyrenaicus, pyrrhonota, quadricaudatus, rhinolophus, silanus, surinamensis, tetragonurus, uralensis, vulgaris, wettsteini.</i> COMMENTS: Type species of subgenus <i>Sorex.</i> <i>S. araneus</i> is the preferred Palearctic species for studies in ecology and evolution; see Hausser et al. (1990) and Hausser (1991) for reviews. The species is well known for its Robertsonian chromosome polymorphism (Meylan, 1964) and for the tendency to establish local karyotype races (Hausser et al., 1985; Searle, 1984; Zima and Kräl, 1984 h); in Switzerland, two karyotype races occur which behave like parapatric species (Hausser et al., 1986). Includes <i>Blarina pyrrhonota</i> Jentink, 1910, a name assigned to <i>Cryptotis surinamensis</i> by Cabrera (1958); however, Husson (1963) showed that the locality information was incorrect and that it was based on a <i>Sorex araneus.</i> The holotype skin (skull lost) of <i>Sylvisorex preussi</i> Matschie, formerly thought to represent an endemic <i>Myosorex</i> of Mt. Cameroon (Heim de Balsac, 1968b), is a <i>Sorex araneus</i> and is therefore included as a synonym. <i>Sorex isodon marchicus,</i> recently described from E Germany (Passarge, 1984), is also tentatively included in <i>araneus</i> as no clear characters are known to distinguish it from the latter.
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 pages 111-112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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