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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Otisorex
SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) pacificus
| Author: | Coues, 1877. | | Citation: | Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., 3(3): 650. | | Common Name: | Pacific Shrew | | Type Locality: | USA, "Fort Umpqua [mouth Umpqua River, Douglas County], Oregon." | | Distribution: | Coastal forests and Cascade Mountains, Oregon (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Otisorex. S. vagrans complex (Carraway, 1990). Karyotype has 2n = 54, FN = 62. Not conspecific with mirabilis; see Yudin (1969) and Hoffmann (1971). Related to monticolus; see Findley (1955b), Junge and Hoffmann (1981), and George (1988). Reviewed by Carraway (1985, Mammalian Species No. 231), who later (1990) removed sonomae from synonymy; see comments under that species. |
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