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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Otisorex
SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) ugyunak
| Author: | Anderson and Rand, 1945. | | Citation: | Canadian Field Nat., 59: 62. | | Common Name: | Barren Ground Shrew | | Type Locality: | "Tuktuk (Tuktuyaktok), northeast side of Mackenzie River delta, south of Toker Point, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada." | | Distribution: | Mainland tundra west of Hudson Bay (Canada), and N Alaska (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Otisorex; S. cinereus group (Demboski and Cook, 2003). Karyotype has 2n = 60, FN = 62. Formerly included in cinereus, but van Zyll de Jong (1976, 1991b) provided arguments for a specific destinction of ugyunak; genetically related to jacksoni, portenkoi, camtschatica, and pribilofensis (Demboski and Cook, 2003). See Junge and Hoffmann (1981) and van Zyll de Jong (1983a, and in Wilson and Ruff, 1999) for further information. |
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