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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Otisorex
SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) portenkoi
| Author: | Stroganov, 1956. | | Citation: | Proc. Inst. Biol. W. Siberian Branch Acad. Sci. USSR, Zool., 1: 11-14. | | Common Name: | Portenko's Shrew | | Type Locality: | Russia, Koryaksk. Auv. Okr. "bliz pos Anadyr', poberejhe Anadyrsk limana [near Anadyr' settlement, shore of Anadyr' estuary]." | | Distribution: | NE Siberia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Otisorex; S. cinereus group (Demboski and Cook, 2003). Originally described as a subspecies of cinereus and treated as such by Yudin (1972) and Okhotina (1977), then included in ugyunak (Ivanitskaya and Kozlovsky, 1985), but recently recognized as a distinct species by Zaitsev (1988), and van Zyll de Jong (1991b), who, however, pointed out its close relationship to jacksoni and ugyunak. |
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