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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Otisorex
SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) palustris
| Author: | Richardson, 1828. | | Citation: | Zool. J., 3: 517. | | Common Name: | American Water Shrew | | Type Locality: | Canada, "marshy places, from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains."; not specified. | | Distribution: | Montane and boreal areas of North America below the tree line from Alaska to the Sierra Nevada, Rocky and Appalachian Mtns. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Formerly placed in genus Neosorex Baird; now in Sorex, subgenus Otisorex, S. vagrans complex (Demboski and Cook, 2001; Fumagalli et al., 1999). Reviewed by Beneski and Stinson (1987, Mammalian Species No. 296), who recognized 9 subspecies. They did not include alaskanus as suggested by Junge and Hoffmann (1981:28) and Hall (1981:43); George (1988) and Carraway (1995) also treated alaskanus as distinct. |
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