Biometría mandibular y dentaria de las musarañas del género Sorex Linnaeus, 1758 en la región central y occidental de los Pirineos

• DOI: 10.7325/galemys.2019.a2
• Publication Date: 2019-05-08T11:07:31Z
• Authors: Raquel Moya-Costa; Gloria Cuenca-Bescos
• Keywords: Sorex; Araneus

We have measured 98 mandibles and 717 teeth of shrews Sorex (Soricidae, Eulipotyphla) the Aragonian, Navarre Vasc Pyrenees. The material comes from owl pellets recovered between 1967 1969 takes part collection Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC). has been reclassified using osseous criteria, biometrics discriminant functions, obtaining that these species are coronatus minutus. study S. is interesting because it similar to araneus granarius so easy confuse them if we only bones teeth. For this reason, people usually group as sp. As consequence, information about in Iberian Peninsula scarce, especially Aragón. analyses measurements show there a difference among occidental populations oriental zones area studied. In general, values decrease west; they larger with Mediterranean influence than Atlantic ones. most useful compare mandibles. On other hand, allow comparison bibliographic data palaeontological consists mainly incomplete