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SPECIES Neomys teres
| Author: | Miller, 1908. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 1: 68. | | Common Name: | Transcaucasian Water Shrew | | Type Locality: | NE Turkey, 25 mi. (40 km) N Erzerum, 7,000 ft. (2134 m). | | Distribution: | Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia); and adjacent Turkey (Kryštufek and Vohralík, 2001) and Iran (specimen in ZFMK); eastern Palearctic limits unknown. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as N. schelkovnikovi. | | Comments: | Better known as N. schelkovnikovi as reviewed by Sokolov and Tembotov (1989). Kryštufek et al. (1998) reviewed the species in Turkey and showed that teres is the corect name for the species. Karyotype (2n = 52, FN = 98) identical to that of the other two species (Graphodatsky et al., 1993). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
balkaricus Ognev, 1926
leptodactylus Satunin, 1914
schelkovnikovi Satunin, 1913
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