Sorex hydrodromus Dobson, 1889

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 115

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scientific name	Sorex hydrodromus Dobson, 1889
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Sorex hydrodromus Dobson, 1889 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 4:373.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, "Unalaska Islands, Aleutian Islands" (probably in error, presumably from St. Paul, Pribilof Isis) .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from St. Paul in the Pribilof Isis, Bering Sea.

SYNONYMS: pribilofensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . There is some discrepancy in the literature on the correct name for this species. Dobson's hydrodromus has priority, but because of an apparently incorrect type locality information and further inconsistencies in the original description, Hoffmann and Peterson (1967) proposed to suppress hydrodromus in favour of pribilofensis Merriam, 1895, a suggestion followed by van Zyll de Jong (1991 b). However, Yudin (1969), Baranova et al. (1981), Hall (1981), Junge and Hoffmann (1981), and Honacki et al. (1982) retained hydrodromus , while Gureev (1979) listed both hydrodromus and pribilofensis as species. As the holotype of hydrodromus still exists in the St. Petersburg Museum, there seems to be no reason for not following the rule of priority.

References

Baranova, G. I., A. A. Gureev, and P. P. Strelkov. 1981. [Catalogue of type specimens in the collection of the Zoological Institute of the USSR, mammals (Mammalia). Part 1. shrews (Insectivora), bats (Chiroptera), hares (Lagomorpha)]. Nauka, Leningrad, 22 pp. (in Russian).

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.

Hoffmann, R. S., and R. S. Peterson. 1967. Systematics and zoogeography of Sorex in the Bering Strait area. Systematic Zoology, 16: 127 - 136.

Honacki, J. H., K. E. Kinman and J. W. Koeppl (eds.). 1982. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference. Allen Press, Inc. and The Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas, 694 pp.

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.

van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1991 b. Speciation of the Sorex cinereus group. Pp. 65 - 73, in The biology of the Soricidae (J. S. Findley and T. L. Yates, eds.). Special Publication, Museum of Southwestern Biology, 1: 1 - 91.

Yudin, B. S. 1969. Taxonomy of some species of shrews (Soricidae) from Palaearctic and Nearctic. Acta Theriologica, 14: 21 - 34.