Sorex palustris

Sorex palustris

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 Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Eulipotyphla

Familia: Soricidae
Subfamilia: Soricinae
Tribus: Soricini
Genus: Sorex
Species: Sorex palustris

Name

• Sorex palustris Richardson, 1828: 517

Holotype: BMNH 1842.10.7.1, dry skin and skull.

Type locality: “Marshy places, from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains”.

Synonyms

• Sorex palustris hydrobadistes Jackson, 1926: 57 [synonymized by Hope, Panter, Cook, Talbot & Nagorsen (2014: 730)]

Holotype: USNM 229.061, adult ♂, skin and skull, collected by Hartley H.T. Jackson on 3 July 1918.

Type locality: “Whitee, Clark County, Wisconsin”.

References

Primary references

• Richardson, J. 1828. Short characters of a few quadrupeds procured on Capt. Franklin’s late expedition. Zoological Journal 3: 516–520. BHL
• Jackson, H.H.T. 1926. An Unrecognized Water Shrew from Wisconsin. Journal of Mammalogy 7(1): 57–58. DOI: 10.2307/1373597
• 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. 

Additional references

• O’Neill, M.B., Nagorsen, D.W. & Baker, R.J. 2005. Mitochondrial DNA variation in water shrews (Sorex palustris, Sorex bendirii) from western North America: implications for taxonomy and phylogeography. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(11): 1469–1475. DOI: 10.1139/z05-146 Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Nagorsen, D.W., Panter, N. & Hope, A.G. 2017. Are the western water shrew (Sorex navigator) and American water shrew (Sorex palustris) morphologically distinct?. Canadian Journal of Zoology 95(10): 727–736. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2017-0007 Reference page. 

Links

• Sorex palustris in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Cassola, F. 2016. IUCN: Sorex palustris  (Least Concern) (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T41410A115184897. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T41410A22317955.en
• North American Mammals: Sorex palustris

Vernacular names

English: Northern Water Shrew
français: Musaraigne palustre