Sorex (Sorex) araneus Linnaeus 1758

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 : 283

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Sorex (Sorex) araneus Linnaeus 1758
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Sorex (Sorex) araneus Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL

Sorex (Sorex) araneus Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 53 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: " in Europe cryptis "; restricted to Uppsala, Sweden by Thomas (1911 a:143) .

Vernacular Names: Common Shrew.

Synonyms: Sorex (Sorex) bergensis Miller 1909 ; Sorex (Sorex) bohemicus Stepanek 1944 ; Sorex (Sorex) bolkayi Martino 1930 ; Sorex (Sorex) carpathicus Barrett-Hamilton 1905 ; Sorex (Sorex) castaneus Jenys 1838 ; Sorex (Sorex) concinnus Wagler 1832 ; Sorex (Sorex) csikii Ehik 1928 ; Sorex (Sorex) daubentonii Cuvier 1829 ; Sorex (Sorex) eleonorae Wettstein 1927 ; Sorex (Sorex) grantii Barrett-Hamilton and Hinton 1913 ; Sorex (Sorex) hermanni Duvernoy 1834 ; Sorex (Sorex) huelleri Lehmann 1966 ; Sorex (Sorex) ignotus Fatio 1905 ; Sorex (Sorex) iochanseni Ognev 1933 ; Sorex (Sorex) labiosus Jenys 1839 ; Sorex (Sorex) macrotrichus de Sélys Longchamps 1839 ; Sorex (Sorex) marchicus Passarge 1984 ; Sorex (Sorex) melanodon Wagler 1832 ; Sorex (Sorex) mollis Fatio 1900 ; Sorex (Sorex) nigra Fatio 1869 ; Sorex (Sorex) novyensis Schaefer 1975 ; Sorex (Sorex) nuda Fatio 1869 ; Sorex (Sorex) pallidus Fitzinger 1868 ; Sorex (Sorex) personatus Millet 1828 ; Sorex (Sorex) petrovi Martino 1939 ; Sorex (Sorex) peucinius Thomas 1913 ; Sorex (Sorex) preussi ( Matschie 1893) ; Sorex (Sorex) pulcher Zalesky 1937 ; Sorex (Sorex) pyrenaicus Miller 1909 ; Sorex (Sorex) pyrrhonota (Jentink 1910) ; Sorex (Sorex) quadricaudatus Kerr 1792 ; Sorex (Sorex) ryphaeus Yudin 1989 ; Sorex (Sorex) sultanae Simsek 1986 ; Sorex (Sorex) surinamensis Gmelin 1788 ; Sorex (Sorex) tetragonurus Hermann 1780 ; Sorex (Sorex) uralensis Ognev 1933 ; Sorex (Sorex) vulgaris Nilsson 1847 ; Sorex (Sorex) wettsteini Bauer 1960 .

Distribution: C, E, and N Europe including the British Isls (with some isolated populations in France, Italy and Spain), east to Siberia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Sorex , S. araneus group. S. araneus is the preferred Palearctic species for studies in ecology and evolution; see Hausser et al. (1990), Hausser (1991), and Wójcik et al. (2002) for reviews. Karyotype variable (2n = 20-33, FN = 40). The species is well known for its Robertsonian chromosome polymorphism ( Meylan, 1964) and for the tendency to establish local karyotype races ( Hausser et al., 1985; Searle, 1984; Searle and Wójcik, 1998, 2000; Volobouev, 2003; Zima and Král, 1984 b; Zima et al., 1994). In Switzerland two karyotype races occur that behave like parapatric species ( Hausser et al., 1986); see under S. antinorii . Includes Blarina pyrrhonota Jentink, 1910 , a name assigned to Cryptotis surinamensis by Cabrera (1958); however, Husson (1963) showed that the locality information was incorrect and that it was based on a Sorex araneus . The holotype skin (skull lost) of Myosorex preussi Matschie, 1893 , formerly thought to represent an endemic species of Mt. Cameroon ( Heim de Balsac, 1968 b), is a Sorex araneus and therefore included as a synonym. Sorex isodon marchicus , described from E Germany ( Passarge, 1984), is included in araneus as no clear morphological characters distinguish it from the latter ( Turni et al., 2001), and because its karyotype represents the Laska race of the common shrews (Brünner et al., 2002 c).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Sorex

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Sorex (Sorex) araneus Linnaeus 1758

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Sorex (Sorex) araneus

Linnaeus 1758: 53
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