Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 127

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Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:53.

TYPE LOCALITY: E USA; fixed by Jackson (1915:33) to Pennsylvania, Philadelphia .

DISTRIBUTION: N Tamaulipas and N Coahuila ( Mexico) through E USA to Massachusetts and Minnesota.

SYNONYMS: aereus, alleni, anastasae, argentatus, australis, bassi, caryi, cryptus, cupreata, howelli , inflatus, intermedins, machrinoides, machrinus, nwntanus, nanus , parvus , pennsylvanica, porteri, pulcher, sericea, texanus, virginianus.

COMMENTS: Includes inflatus and nwntanus; see Yates and Schmidly (1977). Yates and Schmidly (1978, Mammalian Species, 105) listed sixteen subspecies. Gureev (1979:254) listed aereus and inflatus as distinct species without comment. Hall (1981:72) included aereus and inflatus in aquaticus .

References

Gureev, A. A. 1979. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayutschie, tom. 4, vyp. 2. Nasekomoyadnye ... [Fauna of the USSR, Mammals, vol. 4, pt. 2. Insectivores (Mammalia, Insectivora)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 501 pp. (in Russian).

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Jackson, H. H. T. 1915. A revision of the American moles. North American Fauna, 38: 1 - 100.

Yates, T. L., and D. J. Schmidly. 1977. Systematics of Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus) in Texas and adjacent states. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 45: 1 - 36.

Yates, T. L., and D. J. Schmidly. 1978. Scalopus aquaticus. Mammalian Species, 105: 1 - 4.