Sorex ornatus sinuosus

Sorex ornatus sinuosus
A Sorex ornatus sinuosus specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Sorex
Species:
S. ornatus
Subspecies:
S. o. sinuosus
Trinomial name
Sorex ornatus sinuosus
Grinnell, 1913 [1]

Sorex ornatus sinuosus, known commonly as the Suisun shrew or Suisun ornate shrew,[2] is a subspecies of the ornate shrew that occurs in the tidal marshes of the northern shores of San Pablo and Suisun bays (northern arms of the San Francisco Bay, as far east as Grizzly Island and as far west as the mouth of Sonoma Creek in the vicinity of Tubbs Island).[3][4][5] Brown and Rudd redefined the western boundary of the range from a prior designation of the Petaluma River. The Suisun shrew has been designated as a Species of Concern by the U.S. government and a Mammalian Species of Special Concern by the state of California.

  1. ^ James G. Owen & Robert S. Hoffmann (1983). "Sorex ornatus". Mammalian Species (212): 1–5. doi:10.2307/3504070. JSTOR 3504070.
  2. ^ "Suisun Ornate shrew (Sorex ornatus sinuosus) species profile". Environmental Conservation Online System. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. March 4, 2010.
  3. ^ Williams (1986). "Sorex ornatus sinuosus". Ann. Carnegie Mus. 48: 426.
  4. ^ Environmental Assessment of the Columbus Parkway Widening between Ascot Parkway and the Northgate Development, Vallejo, Earth Metrics Inc. Report 7853, California State Clearinghouse, Sept, 1989
  5. ^ "Sorex sinuosus": Type Locality: Grizzly Island, Suisun Bay, Solano Co., California, Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 10:181 (1913)