Sorex leucogaster

Kuroda, 1933

Paramushir Shrew

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Bull. Biogeogr. Soc. Japan, vol. 3, 3, 155

Original name as described

Sorex leucogaster

Type material

YIO 40

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Paramushir Island, Russia. Restricted by J. R. Ellerman and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott in 1951 to "Nasauki, Amamu-shiru, 200 ft. [= 61 m], North Kurile Islands."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Russia

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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