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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Sorex
SPECIES Sorex (Sorex) arcticus
| Author: | Kerr, 1792. | | Citation: | Animal Kingdom: 206. | | Common Name: | Arctic Shrew | | Type Locality: | Canada, Ontario, settlement on Severn River (now Fort Severn), Hudson Bay. | | Distribution: | Yukon and Northwest Territory to Quebec (Canada); Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Sorex. S. arcticus group. Reviewed by Kirkland and Schmidt (1996, Mammalian Species No. 524). Karyotype has 2n = 28/29, FN = 38. Palearctic species currently referred to arcticus (Gromov and Baranova, 1981:18) represent tundrensis (Ivanitskaya et al., 1986; Junge et al., 1983); see also Sokolov and Orlov (1980), Okhotina (1983), and Hoffmann (1985a). Formerly included maritimensis, but see Stewart et al. (2002). |
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