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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Sorex
SPECIES Sorex (Sorex) excelsus
| Author: | G. M. Allen, 1923. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 100: 4. | | Common Name: | Chinese Highland Shrew | | Type Locality: | "summit of Ho-shan (=Xue Shan), Pae-tai, 30 miles (48 km) south of Chung-tien (=Zhongdian), Yunnan, China, altitude 13000 feet [3962 m]." | | Distribution: | Yunnan and Sichuan (China), and possibly Nepal. | | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient. | | Comments: | Subgenus Sorex. Considered as a possible subspecies of asper (Corbet, 1978c) but retained as a full species related to tundrensis by Hoffmann (1987) who also suggested that a specimen from Nepal recorded by Agrawal and Chakraborty (1971) may represent excelsus. However, mtDNA data indicate that excelsus is neither related to asper nor to tundrensis (Fumagalli et al., 1999). |
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