[Taxacom] Water Shrews

[Barry OConnor]

Those genera are placed in different tribes of Soricinae, implying convergent aquatic adaptations.
Stay well! - Barry

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Barry M. OConnor
Emeritus Curator & Professor
University of Michigan
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Zoology
Research Museums Center
3600 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2888
Phone: 734-763-4354
E-mail: bmoc at umich.edu

> On May 31, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
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> Mammalogists,
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> How are Eurasian (Neomys) and American (Sorex palustris) Water Shrews related? Were the aquatic adaptations independently evolved, as the taxonomy would seem to imply?
> 
> fred.
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