Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status
Author
Jo, Yeong-Seok
Author
Baccus, John T.
Author
Koprowski, John L.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-19
4522
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1
216
journal article
27944
10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1
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1175-5326
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ORDER
SORICOMORPHA Gregory, 1910
Soricomorpha
,
Erinaceomorpha
, and Afrosoricida previously composed the single Order
Insectivora
or Lipotyphla (
Hutterer 2005b
). Currently, the Order
Insectivora
has a paraphyletic designation. Since
Soricidae
has a closer relationship to
Erinaceidae
than
Talpidae
,
Soricomorpha
also seems polyphyletic. Several mammalogists advocated combining
Eulipotyphla
with
Erinaceomorpha
and
Soricomorpha
(
Waddell
et al.
1999
;
Murphy
et al.
2001
;
Roca
et al.
2004
). Since greater consensus does not exist for these orders (
Vaughan
et al.
2013
), we followed
Wilson and Reeder (2005)
.
In Korean, 13 species representing four genera and two families compose the Order
Soricomorpha
. In this review, we removed three species from
Soricidae
and confirmed 10 species (see below).