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--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Sorex
SPECIES Sorex (Sorex) unguiculatus
Author: | Dobson, 1890. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 5: 155. | Common Name: | Long-clawed Shrew | Type Locality: | Russia, "Saghalien [Sakhalin] Island; Nikolajewsk, at the mouth of the Amur River." Ognev (1928:204) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:52) both restricted the type locality to Sakhalin Isl. | Distribution: | Pacific coast of Siberia from Vladivostok to the Amur, and the islands of Sakhalin (Russia) and Hokkaido (Japan); from Corbet (1978c). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Sorex, S. caecutiens group. Karyotype has 2n = 42, FN = 68-70. The inclusion of yesoensis follows Abe (1967). Skaren (1964) suggested a relationship with obscurus (= monticolus) but this was rejected by Siivonen (1965) and Hoffmann (1971). |
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