Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Sorex yukonicus
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Dokuchaev, Nikolay E.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1997-08-22 / 1997-08-22
Article/Chapter Title:
A new species of shrew (Soricidae, Insectiora) from Alaska
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 78, no. 3
Page(s):
811-817
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0022-2372
Notes:
Reference for:
Sorex yukonicus
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
Page(s):
2142
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Sorex yukonicus
Sorex yukonicus: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
North America
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Alaska / Native
Sorex yukonicus: Comments
Comment:
Dokuchaev (1997) concluded that Alaskan specimens previously identified as Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780 are actually a distinct species, Sorex yukonicus Dokuchaev, 1997
Comment:
Comments: Subgenus Sorex. Formerly included in minutissimus (Dokuchaev, 1994) but later described as a new species (Dokuchaev, 1997). Subsequently reported from SW Alaska by Peirce and Peirce (2000)