Sorex pacificus

Coues, 1877

Pacific 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

Coues, E. 1877-05-15. Precursory notes on American insectivorous mammals, with descriptions of new species. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3(3):631-653.

Original name as described

Sorex pacificus

Type material

USNM:MAMM:3266

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Fort Umpqua [mouth of Umpqua River, Douglas Co.], Oregon," USA.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Canada · United States

Subregion distribution

USA(AK,OR,WA)

Taxonomy notes

includes bairdi and populations in west Canada and Alaska that were previously attributed to S. monticola (now S. obscurus in the north)

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

Least Concern

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