Sorex monticolus

C. H. Merriam, 1890

Southern Montane 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

Merriam, C.H. 1890-09-11. Annotated list of mammals of the San Francisco mountain plateau and desert of the Little Colorado in Arizona, with notes on their vertical distribution, and descriptions of new species. North American Fauna 3:43-86.

Original name as described

Sorex monticolus

Type material

USNM:MAMM:17599 (= USNM:MAMM:A24535)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

San Francisco Mt, 3500 m, Coconino County, Arizona, USA.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

United States · Mexico

Subregion distribution

USA(CA,UT,WY,NV,CO,AZ,NM)

Taxonomy notes

the spelling is considered to end in -us here rather than -a since the specific epithet is an invariable noun, and although some authors view the original spelling as an error later correct to -a, but this emendation is only justified for names in pravailing use, which is not the case here (the -a spelling is much less common than the -us spelling); includes neomexicanus and previously included S. obscurus

Taxonomy notes citation

Demboski, J. R., & Cook, J. A. (2001). Phylogeography of the dusky shrew, Sorex monticolus (Insectivora, Soricidae): insight into deep and shallow history in northwestern North America. Molecular Ecology, 10(5), 1227-1240. · Woodman, N. (2018). American Recent Eulipotyphla: Nesophontids, solenodons, moles, and shrews in the New World. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 650, 1-107.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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