Tule shrew

Tule shrew
Extinct (1905)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Sorex
Species:
Subspecies:
S. o. juncensis
Trinomial name
Sorex ornatus juncensis
Nelson & Goldman 1909
Synonyms

Sorex californicus juncensis Nelson & Goldman 1909
Sorex juncensis HHT Jackson 1928

The tule shrew[1] (Sorex ornatus juncensis) is a possibly extinct subspecies of the ornate shrew (Sorex ornatus). It was confined to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.

  1. ^ Edward William Nelson & Edward Alphonso Goldman (1909): Eleven new mammals from Lower California. In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington No. 22:p 23–28.