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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Otisorex
SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) hoyi
| Author: | Baird, 1857. | | Citation: | Mammalia, in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1): 32. | | Common Name: | American Pygmy Shrew | | Type Locality: | USA, Wisconsin, Racine. | | Distribution: | N taiga zone of Alaska, Canada and the USA, with S outliers in the montane forests of the Appalachian and Rocky Mtns. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Formerly in Microsorex, which is a synonym of subgenus Otisorex, according to George (1988). Includes thompsoni since Diersing (1980b), but D. T. Stewart (in litt.) suggested that it may be a distinct species, as previously postulated by Long (1972b). Reviewed by Long (1974, Mammalian Species No. 33) and Junge and Hoffmann (1981). Sorex browni George, 1988 [replacement name for minutus (Brown, 1908), not Linnaeus, 1766] is the name for a Wisconsinan shrew related, if not conspecific, with S. hoyi. The name montanus used by Long (in Wilson and Ruff, 1999) for the Colorado and Wyoming population is a secondary homonym of S. montanus Kelaart (now Suncus montanus), and may therefore persist (Hutterer and Zaitsev, 2004). Karyotype insufficently known; Meylan (1968) provisionally identified 2n = 62, FN = 72. |
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