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--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Sorex
SPECIES Sorex (Sorex) asper
| Author: | Thomas, 1914. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 13: 565. | | Common Name: | Tien Shan Shrew | | Type Locality: | "Thian-shan [Tien-shan], Tekes Valley". Note on type specimen tag says "Jigalong" (= Dzhergalan?, see Hoffmann, 1987:119); Narynko'skii r-n., Alma-Ata Obl., Kazakhstan. | | Distribution: | Tien Shan Mountains (Kazakhstan and Sinkiang, China). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Sorex. S. tundrensis group. Karyotype has 2n = 32/33, FN = 58. Type locality discussed by Hoffmann (1987) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987). Does not include excelsus as suggested by Corbet (1978c); see under that species. Reviewed by Hoffmann (1987), who discussed the relationship between asper and tundrensis. Genetically, they are not closely related (Fumagalli et al., 1999). |
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