Sorex minutus

Linnaeus, 1766

Eurasian Pygmy 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

Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio Duodecima, Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 532 pp.

Original name as described

Sorex minutus

Type locality

"Sibiria." Restricted by I. Ya. Pavlinov and O. L. Rossolimo in 1987 to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Ireland · United Kingdom · Portugal · Spain · France · Belgium · Luxembourg · Netherlands · Germany · Denmark · Norway · Sweden · Finland · Switzerland · Liechtenstein · Italy · Austria · Czech Republic · Poland · Slovakia · Hungary · Slovenia · Croatia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Serbia · Kosovo · Montenegro · Albania · North Macedonia · Greece · Turkey · Bulgaria · Romania · Moldova · Ukraine · Belarus · Estonia · Latvia · Lithuania · Russia · Armenia? · Azerbaijan? · Georgia? · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · Pakistan · India · Nepal? · China

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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