Sorex caecutiens

Laxmann, 1788

Laxmann's Shrew

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Soricidae
Subfamily : Soricinae
Tribe : Soricini
Genus : Sorex
Subgenus : Sorex

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Laxmann, E.G. 1788. _Sorex caecutiens_. Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 3:285-286.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36975841

Original name as described

Sorex caecutiens

Other common names

Masked Shrew

Type locality

south-west shore of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Norway · Sweden · Finland · Estonia · Latvia · Lithuania · Poland · Belarus · Ukraine · Russia · Kazakhstan · Mongolia · China · Japan · North Korea · South Korea

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004224

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Sorex buxtoni

J. A. Allen, 1903

Family

Soricidae

Root name

buxtoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AMNH M-18655

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-18655

Authority page

181

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex annexus

O. Thomas, 1907

Family

Soricidae

Root name

annexus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1906.12.6.12

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/456baacc-65f3-4380-9300-f47353a92a15

Authority page

859

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31208616

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex shinto saevus

O. Thomas, 1907

Family

Soricidae

Root name

saevus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1907.2.5.19

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/83852ed9-5613-48f6-84a9-2f883d4005ee

Authority page

408

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31209405

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens hallamontanus

H. Abe & Oh Hong-Shik in Ohdachi, H. Abe, Oh Hong-Shik, & Han Sang-Hoon, 2005

Family

Soricidae

Root name

hallamontanus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ILTS SO-99/10/13-3

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

355

Authority publication

Mammalian Biology

Sorex macropygmaeus koreni

G. M. Allen, 1914

Family

Soricidae

Root name

koreni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MCZ:Mamm:15085

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mamm:15085

Authority page

56

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12808582

Authority publication

Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex cinereus caecutienoides

Stroganov, 1957

Family

Soricidae

Root name

caecutienoides

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

SZM N 2363

Type kind

holotype

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex macropygmaeus

G. S. Miller, 1901

Family

Soricidae

Root name

macropygmaeus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:84012

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3199ca19d-b2d5-4286-86df-e86a980c9c9f http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/35f5872d7-6085-4c64-88b8-2ea82b24b743

Authority page

158

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2339118

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex macropygmaeus rosanovi

Ognev, 1922

Family

Soricidae

Root name

rosanovi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZIN S. 11847

Type kind

syntypes

Authority page

313

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8482932

Authority publication

Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie

Sorex macropygmaeus araneoides

Ognev, 1922

Family

Soricidae

Root name

araneoides

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZIN S. 11905

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

315

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8482934

Authority publication

Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex macropygmaeus altaicus

Ognev, 1922

Family

Soricidae

Root name

altaicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZIN S. 6409

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

314

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8482933

Authority publication

Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex macropygmaeus pleskei

Ognev, 1922

Family

Soricidae

Root name

pleskei

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZIN S. 8509

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

311

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8482930

Authority publication

Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex macropygmaeus altaicus tasicus

Ognev, 1933

Family

Soricidae

Root name

tasicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

infrasubspecific

Type

ZMMU S-13462

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-13462

Authority page

62

Authority publication

Сборник научно-исследовательского института зоологии Московского государственного института

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex macropygmaeus macropygmaeus natio tungussensis

Ognev, 1934

Family

Soricidae

Root name

tungussensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

infrasubspecific

Type

ZMMU S-7693

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://zmmu.msu.ru/dbs/list_record.php?id=S-7693

Authority page

72

Sorex macropygmaeus rozanovi

Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951

Family

Soricidae

Root name

rozanovi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

49

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722350

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens altaicus

A. T. Smith & Xie Yan, 2008

Family

Soricidae

Root name

altaicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

315

Authority publication

Princeton

Name usages

Smith & Xie (2008:315) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)

Sorex caecutiens koreni

A. T. Smith & Xie Yan, 2008

Family

Soricidae

Root name

koreni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

315

Authority publication

Princeton

Name usages

  1. Smith & Xie (2008:315) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  2. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens macropygmaeus

A. T. Smith & Xie Yan, 2008

Family

Soricidae

Root name

macropygmaeus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

315

Authority publication

Princeton

Name usages

  1. Smith & Xie (2008:315) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  2. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens annexus

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2018

Family

Soricidae

Root name

annexus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

398

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex tundrensis buxtoni

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2018

Family

Soricidae

Root name

buxtoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

402

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:402) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens caecutiens

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2018

Family

Soricidae

Root name

caecutiens

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

398

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens laponicus

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2018

Family

Soricidae

Root name

laponicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

398

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens pleskei

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2018

Family

Soricidae

Root name

pleskei

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

398

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens saevus

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2018

Family

Soricidae

Root name

saevus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

398

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens

Laxmann, 1788

Family

Soricidae

Root name

caecutiens

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

285

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36975841

Authority publication

Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:25) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  4. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:367) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  5. Smith & Xie (2008:314) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #29662) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #29662) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004224) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  10. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/29662/22314809) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Sorex paramushirensis

Kishida, 1930

Family

Soricidae

Root name

paramushirensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

373

Authority publication

Zoological Magazine, Tokyo

Sorex macropygmaeus macropygmaeus natio tungussensis

Naumov, 1933

Family

Soricidae

Root name

tungussensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

infrasubspecific

Authority page

72

Authority publication

Сборник научно-исследовательского института зоологии Московского государственного института

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex lapponicus

Y. Melander, 1942

Family

Soricidae

Root name

lapponicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

134

Authority publication

Kungliga Fysiografiska sällskapets i Lund förhandlingar

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex macropygmaeus karpinskii

Dehnel, 1949

Family

Soricidae

Root name

karpinskii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

51, 88

Authority publication

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens insularis

Okhotina, 1984

Family

Soricidae

Root name

insularis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

66

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens kurilensis

Okhotina, 1984

Family

Soricidae

Root name

kurilensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

31-72

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens longicaudatus

Okhotina, 1984

Family

Soricidae

Root name

longicaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

31-72

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens insularis

Okhotina, 1993

Family

Soricidae

Root name

insularis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

64

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens longicaudatus

Okhotina, 1993

Family

Soricidae

Root name

longicaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

65

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS

Name usages

Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)

Sorex caecutiens kunashirensis

Hutterer & M. V. Zaitsev, 2004

Family

Soricidae

Root name

kunashirensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Authority page

90

Authority publication

Mammal Study

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)

Sorex caecutiens okhotinae

Hutterer & M. V. Zaitsev, 2004

Family

Soricidae

Root name

okhotinae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Authority page

90

Authority publication

Mammal Study

Sorex caecutiens kunashirum

Okhotina in Hutterer & M. V. Zaitsev, 2004

Family

Soricidae

Root name

kunashirum

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

90

Authority publication

Mammal Study

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