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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Sorex
SPECIES Sorex (Sorex) satunini
| Author: | Ognev, 1922. | | Citation: | Ann. Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci., 22: 311. | | Common Name: | Caucasian Shrew | | Type Locality: | Turkey, Kars, Goele, "Gel'skaya kotlovina [depression], Mvuzaret". | | Distribution: | N Turkey and Caucasus. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Sorex; S. araneus group (Fumagalli et al., 1999). Karyotype has 2n = 24/25, FN = 46. Formerly referred to as caucasicus Satunin, which is now synonymized with raddei Satunin; see Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) and Zaitsev (1988). Sokolov and Tembotov (1989), who reviewed the distribution in Caucasus, used caucasicus for this species. Considered a distinct species by Graf et al. (1979). |
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