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Taxonomy
Sorex arcticus was named by Kerr (1792). It is extant.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1792 | Sorex arcticus Kerr |
| 1980 | Sorex arcticus Kurten and Anderson p. 107 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792 [arctic shrew]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Sorex arcticus (124319 125941) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (West Virginia) | Sorex arcticus (20554) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Kansas) | Sorex arcticus (20313 20314 20423) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Oklahoma) | Sorex arcticus (20309) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Nebraska) | Sorex arcticus (20138) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (Colorado) | Sorex arcticus (20369) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Sorex arcticus (82258 103991) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Sorex arcticus (93332 123868) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Tennessee) | Sorex arcticus (82890) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Sorex arcticus (104035 104672) |