Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 127

Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:53.

TYPE LOCALITY: E USA; fixed by Jackson (1915:33) to Pennsylvania, Philadelphia .

DISTRIBUTION: N Tamaulipas and N Coahuila ( Mexico) through E USA to Massachusetts and Minnesota.

SYNONYMS: aereus, alleni, anastasae, argentatus, australis, bassi, caryi, cryptus, cupreata, howelli , inflatus, intermedins, machrinoides, machrinus, nwntanus, nanus , parvus , pennsylvanica, porteri, pulcher, sericea, texanus, virginianus.

COMMENTS: Includes inflatus and nwntanus; see Yates and Schmidly (1977). Yates and Schmidly (1978, Mammalian Species, 105) listed sixteen subspecies. Gureev (1979:254) listed aereus and inflatus as distinct species without comment. Hall (1981:72) included aereus and inflatus in aquaticus .