The biggest zoological museum in Asian part of Russia – Siberian Zoological Museum (RUSSIA, Novosibirsk, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology) possesses a theriological collection, which contains 105 thousand of specimens belonging to 284 mammal species (Yudin, Zolotarenko, 1970; Zholnerovskaya, Koyasu, 1997; Zholnerovskaya et al., 1989).

Altogether in the collection it is 126 type specimens including 22 holotypes and 104 paratypes of 32 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 29 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 paratypes)
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).

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.

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.

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.

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, 1960) (Stroganov, 1960 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.

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