Sorex albibarbis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Eulipotyphla

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Eulipotyphla

Familia: Soricidae
Subfamilia: Soricinae
Tribus: Soricini
Genus: Sorex
Species: Sorex albibarbis
Subspecies (3): S. a. albibarbis – S. a. gloveralleni – S. a. labradorensis

Name

• Sorex albibarbis (Cope, 1862)

Syntypes (2): USNM 11239, adult ♀, skull and skeleton (alcoholic part of this specimen was destroyed), collected by E.D. Cope on September 1859; USNM 38743, unknown.

Type locality: “Profile Lake, in the Franconia Mountains, [Grafton County,] New Hampshire”.

Combinations

• Neosorex albibarbis Cope, 1862: 188 [original combination]
• Sorex albibarbis — Merriam, 1892: 25 [subsequent combination]
• Sorex palustris albibarbis — Rhoads, 1903: 191 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1862. On Neosorex albibarbis. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 188–189. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Mycroft, E.E., Shafer, A.B.A. & Stewart, D.T. 2011. Cytochrome-b sequence variation in water shrews (Sorex palustris) from eastern and western North America. Northeastern Naturalist 18(4): 497–508. DOI: 10.1656/045.018.0407 Reference page. 
• Hope, A.G., Panter, N., Cook, J.A., Talbot, S.L. & Nagorsen, D.W. 2014. Multilocus phylogeography and systematic revision of North American water shrews (genus: Sorex). Journal of Mammalogy 95(4): 722–738. DOI: 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-196 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Eastern Water Shrew