Sorex arcticus Kerr, 1792

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 112

Sorex arcticus Kerr, 1792 . Animal Kingdom, p. 206.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, settlement on Severn River (now Fort Severn), Hudson Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: Yukon and Northwest Territory to Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick ( Canada); North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ( USA).

SYNONYMS: laricorum, maritimensis, pachyurus, richardsonii, spagnicola.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Palearctic species currently referred to arcticus ( Gromov and Baranova, 1981:18) represent tundrensis ( Junge et al., 1983; Ivanitskaya et al., 1986); see also Sokolov and Orlov (1980) and Hoffmann (1985«). Van Zyll de Jong (1983b) and Volobouev and van Zyll de Jong (1988) suggested that maritimensis may be an independent species.