Blarina hylophaga Elliot 1899

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 269

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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scientific name	Blarina hylophaga Elliot 1899
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Treatment

Blarina hylophaga Elliot 1899 , Field Columb. Mus. Publ., Zool. Ser., 1: 287.

Type Locality: USA, Oklahoma, Murray Co., Dougherty.

Vernacular Names: Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Blarina hylophaga subsp. hylophaga Elliot 1899

Subspecies Blarina hylophaga subsp. plumbea Davis 1941

Distribution: USA: S Nebraska and SW Iowa south to S Texas; east to Missouri and NW Arkansas; Oklahoma; extending into Louisiana.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Original spelling hulophaga Elliot, 1899, corrected to hylophaga by Elliot (1905). Formerly included in carolinensis , but separated as a distinct species by George et al. (1982). Karyotype 2n = 52, FN = 64-66 ( Zima et al., 1998). Molecular data suggest that this is the basal taxon of the genus (Brandt and Ortí, 2002).