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SPECIES Sorex (Sorex) alpinus

Author:Schinz, 1837.
Citation:Neue Denkschr. Allgem. Schweiz. Gesell. Naturwiss. Neuchatel, 1: 13.
Common Name:Alpine Shrew
Type Locality:Switzerland, Canton Uri, St. Gotthard Pass.
Distribution:Montane forests of C Europe; including Pyrenees, Carpathians, Tatra, Sudeten, Harz, and Jura Mtns.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Subgenus Sorex, S. alpinus group. Type species of subgenus Homalurus; see Hutterer (1982b). Reviewed by Spitzenberger (1990a). No clear subspecific variation; three karyotypic forms (2n = 54-58, FN = 68) have been described (Dannelid 1994; Lukácová et al. 1996). European range shown in Mitchell-Jones et al. (1999). Peripheral populations in the Pyrenees and the Harz Mtns (Gahsche, 1994) now probably extinct.
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Synonyms:

    hercynicus Miller, 1909
    intermedius Cornalia, 1870
    longobarda Sordelli, 1899
    tatricus Kratochvil and Rosicky, 1952

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