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A review of the taxonomy of the Sorex vagrans species complex from western North America

1977; Volume: 68; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/bhl.part.20459

0091-7958

Darwen Hennings, Robert S. Hoffman,

Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies

Speciation of the Wandering Shreiv (1955a), the Sorex vagrans complex was thought to consist of at least three closely related species: Sorex vagrans, S. obscurus, and S. pacificus.Jackson (1928) separated these species on the basis of size and pelage color; throughout much of the Pacific Northwest at least two of the taxa can be collected at the same localities.However, in the northern Rocky Mountains, especially in western Montana, vagrans and ohscurus are so similar in size and pelage color that mammalogists found them impossible to distinguish (Clothier, 1950;