Blarina brevicauda
(Say in James, 1823)
Northern Short-tailed Shrew
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Eulipotyphla |
| Suborder | : Erinaceota |
| Family | : Soricidae |
| Subfamily | : Soricinae |
| Tribe | : Blarinini |
| Genus | : Blarina |
Species status
Authority citation
James, E. 1823. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. Vol. I. H. C. Carey and I. Lea, Philadelphia, 503 pp.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40216588Original name as described
Sorex brevicaudus
Other common names
Giant Mole Shrew
Type material
FHSM 37241
Type kind
neotype
Type locality
"Engineer cantonment ... west bank of the Missouri [River], about half a mile [= 0.8 km] above Fort Lisa, five miles [= 8 km] below Council Bluff, and three miles above the mouth of Boyer's River," Nebraska, USA. Restricted by J. K. Jones, Jr. in 1964 to "Washington County, Nebraska, about five miles [= 8 km] north of the Douglas-Washington county line at a place approximately two miles [= 3.2 km] east of the present village of Ft. Calhoun."
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic
Country distribution
Canada · United States
Subregion distribution
USA(ME,NH,VT,MA,RI,CT,NY,NJ,PA,MD,DE,DC,VA,WV,NC,SC,GA,TN,KY,OH,IN,IL,MI,WI,MN,IA,MO,AR,OK,KS,CO,WY,NE,ND,SD,MT)
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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