Sorex leucogaster Kuroda, 1933

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 116

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scientific name	Sorex leucogaster Kuroda, 1933
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Sorex leucogaster Kuroda, 1933 . Bull. Biogeogr. Soc. Japan, 3,3:155.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Paramushir Isl; given by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:48) as "Nasauki, Amamu-shiru, 200 ft., North Kurile Islands" .

DISTRIBUTION: Probably confined to Paramushir Isl, south of Kamchatka Peninsula.

SYNONYMS: beringianus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Formerly included in cinereus or gracillimus ( Corbet, 1978c) ; includes beringianus Yudin, 1967. On the status, authorship and valid date of publication see Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Related to jacksoni and ugyunak ( van Zyll de Jong, 1982, 1991b).

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1982. Relationships of amphiberingian shrews of the Sorex cinereus group. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 60: 1580 - 1587.

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.