Blarina hylophaga Elliot 1899

Blarina hylophaga Elliot 1899, Field Columb. Mus. Publ., Zool. Ser., 1: 287.

Type Locality: USA, Oklahoma, Murray Co., Dougherty.

Vernacular Names: Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Blarina hylophaga subsp. hylophaga Elliot 1899

Subspecies Blarina hylophaga subsp. plumbea Davis 1941

Distribution: USA: S Nebraska and SW Iowa south to S Texas; east to Missouri and NW Arkansas; Oklahoma; extending into Louisiana.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Original spelling hulophaga Elliot, 1899, corrected to hylophaga by Elliot (1905). Formerly included in carolinensis, but separated as a distinct species by George et al. (1982). Karyotype 2n = 52, FN = 64-66 (Zima et al., 1998). Molecular data suggest that this is the basal taxon of the genus (Brandt and Ortí, 2002).