Sorex ornatus Merriam, 1895

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 118

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scientific name	Sorex ornatus Merriam, 1895
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Sorex ornatus Merriam, 1895 . N. Am. Fauna, 10:79.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "San Emigdio Canyon, Mt. Pinos [Kern Co.], California " .

DISTRIBUTION: California coastal ranges from N of San Francisco Bay to N part and S tip of Baja California; Santa Catalina Isl.

SYNONYMS: californicus, juncensis, lagunae, oreinus, relictus, salarius, salicornicus, sinuosus, willetti.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Reviewed by Owen and Hoffmann (1983, Mammalian Species, 212), who recognized 9 subspecies. For further distributional information see Williams (1979) and Junge and Hoffmann (1981); for karyotype and allozyme data see Brown and Rudd (1981) and George (1988).

References

Brown, R. J., and R. L. Rudd. 1981. Chromosomal comparisons within the Sorex ornatus-S. vagrans complex. Wasmann Journal of Biology, 32: 303 - 326.

George, S. B. 1988. Systematics, historical biogeography, and evolution of the genus Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy, 69: 443 - 461.

Junge, J. A., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1981. An annotated key to the long-tailed shrews (genus Sorex) of the United States and Canada, with notes on Middle American Sorex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 94: 1 - 48.

Owen, J. G., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1983. Sorex ornatus. Mammalian Species, 212: 1 - 5.