Sorex (Otisorex) ugyunak Anderson and Rand 1945

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 298

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Sorex (Otisorex) ugyunak Anderson and Rand 1945 View in CoL

Sorex (Otisorex) ugyunak Anderson and Rand 1945 View in CoL , Canadian Field Nat., 59: 62.

Type Locality: "Tuktuk (Tuktuyaktok), northeast side of Mackenzie River delta, south of Toker Point, Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada." .

Vernacular Names: Barren Ground Shrew.

Distribution: Mainland tundra west of Hudson Bay ( Canada), and N Alaska ( USA).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Otisorex ; S. cinereus group ( Demboski and Cook, 2003). Karyotype has 2n = 60, FN = 62. Formerly included in cinereus , but van Zyll de Jong (1976, 1991 b) provided arguments for a specific destinction of ugyunak ; genetically related to jacksoni , portenkoi , camtschatica , and pribilofensis ( Demboski and Cook, 2003) . See Junge and Hoffmann (1981) and van Zyll de Jong (1983 a, and in Wilson and Ruff, 1999) for further information.