Sorex cinereus Kerr 1792
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex cinereus

description: <i>Sorex cinereus</i> Kerr, 1792. Animal Kingdom, p. 206. TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, Fort Severn. DISTRIBUTION: North America throughout Alaska and Canada and southward along the Rocky and Appalachian Mtns to 45°. SYNONYMS: <i>acadicus, cooperi, fimbripes, fontinalis, forsteri, hollisteri, idahoensis, frankstounensis, lesueurii, miscix, nigriculus, ohionensis, personatus, platyrhinus, streatori.</i> COMMENTS: Type species of subgenus <i>Otisorex.</i> Does not occur in Siberia as previously suggested; the taxa <i>haydeni, jacksoni, ugyunak, portenkoi, leucogaster, beringianus</i> and <i>camtschatica</i> have been included previously but are now considered as separate species; see comments under these taxa and Junge and Hoffmann (1981, and references cited therein), van Zyll de Jong (1982, 1991b), van Zyll de Jong and Kirkland (1989), and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). <i>S. fontinalis</i> was separated from <i>cinereus</i> by Kirkland (1977), Junge and Hoffmann (1981), and Jones et al. (1992), but is considered, together with <i>lesueurii, as</i> a subspecies (van Zyli de Jong and Kirkland, 1989). However, George's (1988) data indicate it is a sister taxon to both <i>cinereus</i> and <i>haydeni.</i>
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 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
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