HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS ??See comments
SPECIES Sorex (??See comments) planiceps
Author: | Miller, 1911. | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 24: 242. | Common Name: | Kashmir Pygmy Shrew | Type Locality: | India, "Dachin, Khistwar, Kashmir (altitude, 9000 feet [2743 m])". | Distribution: | Kashmir (India) and N Pakistan. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Considered a subspecies of thibetanus by Dolgov and Hoffmann (1977) and Hoffmann (1987, 1996a, b), but retained by Hutterer (1979) because of larger skull measurements. The problem remains unresolved. |
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