Altogether in the collection it is 128 type specimens including 22 holotypes and 106 paratypes of 34 taxa.
Three of them described as type specimens of the species range.
There are 2 holotypes:
Sorex beringianus Yudin, 1967 (now = S. leucogaster Kuroda,
1933),
Alticola fetisovi Galkina et Jepifantseva, 1988
and 1 paratype:
Sorex dukelskiae Ognev, 1933 (now = S. roboratus Hollister,
1913).
The other type specimens represent 31 subspecies, 9 ones
from which are acknowledged now (*):
Talpa europaea transuralensis Stroganov, 1956 (holotype,
3 paratypes)
Sorex minutus heptapotamicus Stroganov, 1956 (holotype,
6 paratypes)
Sorex minutissimus barabensis Stroganov, 1956 (3 paratypes)
Mustela eversmanni tuvinicus Stroganov, 1960 (holotype,
1 paratype)
Vormela peregusna obscura Stroganov, 1948 (1 paratype)
Ochotona hyperborea davanica Sokolov, Ivanitskaya, Gruzdev et
Geptner, 1994 (lectotype, 2 paralectotypes)
Marmota baibacina kastschenkoi Stroganov et Yudin, 1956 (holotype)
Clethrionomys glareolus devius Stroganov et Tur’eva, 1948 (6
paratypes)**
Sicista betulina taigica Stroganov et Potapkina, 1950 (holotype,
1 paratype)
One holotype has the highest value in the Museum. This holotype has been described as the subspecies type specimen and in the present time it is acknowledged as a species one - Sorex cinereus camtschatica Yudin, 1972 (now = Sorex camtschaticus Yudin, 1972).
The systematic of the mammals and geographical names of the regions and localities are given in accordance with the “Systematic of the mammals of the USSR” (Pavlinov, Rossolimo, 1998) and “Atlas of the USSR” (1983), “Dictionary of geographical names of the USSR” (1983).
The full list of type specimens is:
O r d e r L I P
O T Y P H L A
Family TALPIDAE
Fischer, 1817
Genus TALPA Linnaeus, 1758
Talpa
altaica salairica Egorin, 1936 (Egorin, 1936).
Lectotype: N 6665 (coll. 46), skull,
male, Salairskyi Kryazh, 22.06.1934, N.F.Egorin.
Paralectotype: N 6668 (coll. 10),
skull, at the same place, male, 1932, N.F.Egorin.
Talpa
altaica sibirica Egorin, 1937 (Egorin, 1937).
Lectotype: N 6669 (coll. 9), skull,
male, Tyazhin station, Mariinskaya taiga, Tyazhinskyi district, Kemerovskaya
region, 18.07.1935, K.T.Avseenko.
Paralectotypes: N 6663 (coll. 96),
N 6666 (coll. 29), N 6667 (coll. 115), N 6674 (coll.118), 4 skulls, 4 males,
1935, the same label.
Talpa
altaica tymensis Egorin, 1937 (Egorin, 1937).
Lectotype: N 6673 (coll. 48), skull,
male, Naunak village, Vasyugan river, Kargasokskyi district, Tomskaya region,
4.07.1935, N.F.Egorin.
Paralectotypes: N 6672 (coll. 127),
skull, male, 4.08.1935, the same label; N 6191 (coll. 109), N 6214 (coll.
72), 2 skins with skull, 2 males, Napas village, Tym river, Parabelskyi
district, Tomskaya region, july 1935, P.P.Ryazantsev.
Family SORICIDAE
Fisher, 1817
Genus SUNCUS Ehrenberg, 1832
Genus CROCIDURA Wagler, 1832
Crocidura
leucodon avicennai Stroganov, 1960 (Stroganov, 1960 a).
Holotype: N 3314 (2124, coll. 5),
skin with skull, male, Tigrovaya Balka reserve, Kurgan-Tyubinskaya region,
Tadjikistan, 21.06.1951, S.U.Stroganov.
Paratypes: N 3312 (coll.2126),
N 3315 (coll.2125), 2 skins with skull, females, at the same place, 06.1951,
S.U.Stroganov.
Crocidura
sibirica ognevi Stroganov, 1956 (Stroganov, 1956 a).
Paratype: N 4384 (coll.1062), skin
with skull, Altaiskii Krai Province, Troitskii District, Borovlyanka, 26.08.1953,
B.S.Yudin.
Genus SOREX Linnaeus, 1758
Sorex
minutissimus karelicus Stroganov, 1949 (Stroganov, 1949).
Paratypes: N 6734 (coll. 880),
N 6736 (coll. 920), 2 skins with skull, 2 males, Toyvola village, Suoyarvskyi
district, Karelia, august 1948, S.U.Stroganov.
Sorex
minutissimus abnormis Stroganov, 1949 (Stroganov, 1949).
Paratypes: N 2342 (coll. 2115),
alcohol-fixed sample, female, vicinity of Lake Kurgaldzhin, Akmolinskaya
region, Kazakhstan, 4.08.1948, M.I.Vladimirskaya.
*Sorex
minutissimus barabensis Stroganov, 1956 (Stroganov, 1956 a).
Paratypes: N 4364 (coll.2063),
skull, N2361 (coll. 2064), alcohol-fixed sample, female, Egerbush village,
Barabinskyi district, Novosibirskaya region, 20.10.1952, G.V.Kvitnitskaya:
N 2362 (coll. 2218), N 2363 (coll. 2219), 2 alcohol-fixed samples, 2 males,
Kashlamskyi pine wood, Kolyvanskyi district, Novosibirskaya region, 10.05.1952,
S.U.Stroganov, N 6742 (coll.2019), skull, 07-08.1952, A.A.Maksimov.
Sorex
minutissimus stroganovi Yudin, 1964 (Yudin, 1964).
Paratypes: N 7540 (coll. 522),
skin with skull, female, N 7542 (coll. 777), skin with skull, female, upper
reaches of the Buguzun river, Kosh-Agachskyi district, Mountain Altai,
16-28.08.1962, B.S.Yudin; N 7541 (coll. 627), skin with skull, at the same
place, 20.08.1962, A.B.Markina.
Sorex
minutissimus caudata Yudin, 1964 (Yudin, 1964).
Paratypes: N 7552 (coll. 2751),
N 7553 (coll. 804), N 7554 (coll. 844), 3 skins with skull, 3 males, Kebezen
village, valley of the Biay river, Turochakskyi district, Mountain Altai,
8.07.1963, I.V.Lukyanova.
Sorex
beringianus Yudin, 1967 (Yudin, 1967) (=S. leucogaster
Kuroda, 1933).
Holotype: N 2341 (coll. 152), skin
with skull, male, Paramushir, Kuril Islands, 5.08.1966, A.G.Velizhanin.
Paratypes: N 2350 (coll. 103),
skin with skull, 2351 (coll. 104), skull, male and female, at the same
place, V.I.Telegin; N 2352 (coll. 233), skull, male, at the same place,
20.08.1966, A.G.Velizhanin; N 2353 (coll. 650), skull, female, at the same
place, 15.09.1960, V.G.Voronov.
Sorex
cinereus camtschatica Yudin, 1972 (Yudin, 1972) (now is Sorex
camtschaticus Yudin, 1972).
Holotype: N 2342 (coll. 481), alcohol-fixed
sample, male, Kambalnaya bay, Ust-Bolsheretskyi district, Kamchatka peninsula,
Kamchatskaya region, 18.08.1967, V.G.Voronov.
Paratypes: N M-294 (coll.430),
male, 8.08.1967; N M-1318 (coll.473), female, 15.08.1967; N M-737 (coll.0),
female, 1967; N M-298 (coll.482), male, 17.08.1967; alcohol-fixed samples,
the same lable.
Sorex
cinereus caecutienoides Stroganov, 1957 (Stroganov, 1957) (=S.
caecutiens Laxmann, 1788).
Holotype: N 2363 (coll. 2023),
alcohol-fixed sample, female, Megino-Kangalasskii district, Yakutia, august
1952, P.D.Larionov.
Paratypes: N 2364 (coll. 2024),
2365 (coll. 3570), 2 alcohol-fixed samples, males and females, the same
lable.
Sorex
dukelskiae Ognev, 1933 (Ognev, 1933) (=S. roboratus
Hollister,
1913).
Paratype: N 4391 (coll. 53), skull,
Taz river, Turukhanskyi territory (Tyumenskaya region, Yamalo-Nenetskyi
autonomous circuit), august 1929, V.N.Skalon.
Sorex
jenissejensis margarita Fetisov, 1950 (Fetisov, 1950) (=S.
tundrensis Merriam, 1900).
Paratype: N 2107 (coll. 4542),
skin with skull, Mysovka river, Khamar-Daban Range, Buryatia, 22.VIII 1936,
A.S.Fetisov.
O r d e r C A R
N I V O R A
Family MUSTELIDAE
Fischer, 1817
Genus MUSTELA Linnaeus, 1758
Mustela
eversmanni pallidus (Stroganov, 1958) (Stroganov, 1958 b).
Paratypes: N 7014 (coll. 4355),
skin with skull, N 7015 (coll. 4356), skull, 7231 (coll. 4530), skin, 3
females, Kargat village, Kargatskyi district, Novosibirskaya region, 4.03.1958,
S.U.Stroganov.
Mustela
eversmanni heptapotamicus (Stroganov, 1960) (Stroganov, 1960
b).
Holotype: N 7279 (coll. 4524),
skin with skull, female, Ili river, south Cis-Balkhash, Kazakhstan, april
1958, A.P.Lesnyak.
*Mustela
eversmanni tuvinicus (Stroganov, 1958) (Stroganov, 1958 b).
Holotype: N 6983 (coll. 4403),
skin with skull, female, Chaa-Khol village, Ulug-Khemskyi district, Tuva,
20.04.1958, O.I.Gavrilov.
Paratype: N 39800 (270, coll .196),
skin with skull, male, Zaimka Ogneva, Tandinskyi district, Tuva, 18.08.1945,
A.Charkova.
Mustela
eversmanni dauricus (Stroganov, 1958) (Stroganov, 1958 b).
Holotype: N 7008 (coll. 4401),
skin with skull, female, Smolenskoe village, vicinity of the city of Chita,
12.01.1939, I.A.Velinsky.
Genus VORMELA Blasius, 1884.
Genus MELES Boddart, 1785
Genus LUTRA Brunnich, 1771
O r d e r L A G
O M O R P H A
Family LEPORIDAE
Fischer, 1817
Genus LEPUS Linnaeus, 1758
Family OCHOTONIDAE
Thomas, 1897
Genus OCHOTONA Link, 1795
O r d e r R O D
E N T I A
Family SCIURIDAE
Fischer, 1817
Genus MARMOTA Blumenbach, 1779
Family CRICETIDAE
Fischer, 1817
Genus CLETHRIONOMYS Tilesius, 1850
Genus ALTICOLA Blanford, 1881
Family SMINTHIDAE
Brandt, 1855
Genus SICISTA Gray, 1827
O r d e r A R T
I O D A C T Y L A
Family BOVIDAE
Gray, 1821
Genus GAZELLA Blainville, 1816
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