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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS unnamed subgenus, see comments
SPECIES Sorex (unnamed subgenus, see comments) arizonae
| Author: | Diersing and Hoffmeister, 1977. | | Citation: | J. Mammal., 58: 329. | | Common Name: | Arizona Shrew | | Type Locality: | USA, "upper end of Miller Canyon, 15 mi S [= 10 mi. (16.1 km) S, 4¾ mi. (7.6 km) E] Fort Huachuca [near spring at lower edge of Douglas fir zone, Huachuca Mts.] Cochise County, Arizona". | | Distribution: | Disjunct mountains in SE Arizona and SW New Mexico (USA; see Conway and Schmitt, 1978 and Hoffmeister, 1986); one specimen from Sierra Madre Occidental of Chihuahua (Mexico; see Caire et al., 1978). | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Refered to unnamed subgenus by George (1988). Close to emarginatus (see Diersing and Hoffmeister, 1977). Species reviewed by Simons and Hoffmeister (2003, Mammalian Species No. 732). |
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