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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Blarinini
--> GENUS Blarina
SPECIES Blarina hylophaga
| Author: | Elliot, 1899. | | Citation: | Field Columb. Mus. Publ., Zool. Ser., 1: 287. | | Common Name: | Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew | | Type Locality: | USA, Oklahoma, Murray Co., Dougherty. | | Distribution: | USA: S Nebraska and SW Iowa south to S Texas; east to Missouri and NW Arkansas; Oklahoma; extending into Louisiana. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | 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). |
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