Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 284

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792
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Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792 View in CoL

Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792 View in CoL , Animal Kingdom: 206.

Type Locality: Canada, Ontario, settlement on Severn River (now Fort Severn), Hudson Bay.

Vernacular Names: Arctic Shrew.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Sorex (Sorex) arcticus subsp. arcticus Kerr 1792

Subspecies Sorex (Sorex) arcticus subsp. laricorum Jackson 1925

Distribution: Yukon and Northwest Territory to Quebec ( Canada); Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota ( USA).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Sorex . S. arcticus group. Reviewed by Kirkland and Schmidt (1996, Mammalian Species No. 524). Karyotype has 2n = 28/29, FN = 38. Palearctic species currently referred to arcticus ( Gromov and Baranova, 1981:18) represent tundrensis ( Ivanitskaya et al., 1986; Junge et al., 1983); see also Sokolov and Orlov (1980), Okhotina (1983), and Hoffmann (1985 a). Formerly included maritimensis , but see Stewart et al. (2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Sorex

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Sorex (Sorex) arcticus Kerr 1792

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Sorex (Sorex) arcticus

Kerr 1792: 206
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