HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Otisorex
SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) ornatus
Author: | Merriam, 1895. | Citation: | N. Am. Fauna, 10: 79. | Common Name: | Ornate Shrew | Type Locality: | USA, "San Emigdio Canyon, Mt. Pi±os [Kern Co.], California". | Distribution: | California coastal ranges from N of San Francisco Bay to N part and S tip of Baja California; Santa Catalina Isl. | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered as S. o. relictus; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Otisorex. Genetically related to S. vagrans (Demboski and Cook, 2001). Reviewed by Owen and Hoffmann (1983, Mammalian Species No. 212), who recognized 9 subspecies. For further distributional information see Williams (1979) and Junge and Hoffmann (1981); for karyotype (2n = 54, FN = 76) and allozyme data see Brown and Rudd (1981) and George (1988). |
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