Sorex vagrans Baird, 1857

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 122

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scientific name	Sorex vagrans Baird, 1857
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Sorex vagrans Baird, 1857 . Mammalia, in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):15.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Shoalwater Bay, W. T. [= Willapa Bay, Pacific Co., Washington]."

DISTRIBUTION: Riparian and montane areas of the N Great Basin and Columbia Plateau, north to S British Columbia and Vancouver Island ( Canada); east to W Montana, W Wyoming, and Wasatch Mtns (Utah); C Nevada to Sierra Nevada (California).

SYNONYMS: amoenus, halicoetes, nevadensis, nigriculus, paludivagus, parvidens , shastensis, sukleyi, trigonirostris, vancouverensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Findley's (1955b) wide concept of the vagrans group was substantially modified by Hennings and Hoffmann (1977) and Junge and Hoffmann (1981).

References

Findley, J. S. 1955 b. Speciation of the wandering shrew. University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, 9: 1 - 68.

Hennings, D., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1977. A review of the taxonomy of the Sorex vagrans species complex from western North America. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 68: 1 - 35.

Junge, J. A., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1981. An annotated key to the long-tailed shrews (genus Sorex) of the United States and Canada, with notes on Middle American Sorex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 94: 1 - 48.