Sorex saussurei

C. H. Merriam, 1892

Saussure's Shrew

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Merriam, C.H. 1892-09-29. Descriptions of nine new mammals collected by E. W. Nelson in the states of Colima and Jalisco, Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 7:164-174.

Original name as described

Sorex saussurei

Type material

USNM:MAMM:33667 (= USNM:MAMM:A45702)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Sierra de Colima, Jalisco, Mexico (altitude 8,000 feet [= 2438 m])," but the type specimen tag has "Sierra Nevado, Jalisco." Restricted by L. N. Carraway in 2007 to "latitude 19.55°N, longitude 103.63°W."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Mexico

Taxonomy notes

previously included S. salvini and populations now attributed to S. mediopua

Taxonomy notes citation

Carraway, L. N. (2007). Shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) of Mexico. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist, 3, 1-91. · Matson, J. O., & Ordóñez-Garza, N. (2017). The taxonomic status of Long-tailed shrews (Mammalia: genus Sorex) from Nuclear Central America. Zootaxa, 4236(3), 461-483.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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