Sorex ugyunak Anderson and Rand, 1945

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 121

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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.