Sorex alaskanus Merriam, 1900

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 111

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scientific name	Sorex alaskanus Merriam, 1900
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Sorex alaskanus Merriam, 1900 . Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2: 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Point Gustavus, Glacier Bay, Alaska " .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . The species was tentatively included in palustris by Junge and Hoffmann (1981), but retained as a species by Hall (1981), Jones et al. (1982), and George (1988); a view supported by the skull figures and measurements given by Jackson (1928). Apparently the species has not been collected again since 1899.

References

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

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. 1928. A taxonomic review of the American long-tailed shrews. North American Fauna, 51: 1 - 238.

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.