Order Insectivora
Author
Rainer Hutterer
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
69
130
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085
1-56098-217-9
7353085
Sorex oreopolus
Merriam, 1892
.
Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington
, 7:173
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
"Sierra de
Colima
,
Jalisco
,
Mexico
(altitude
10,000 feet
) [
3,048 m
]"
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Jalisco
(
Mexico
); perhaps east to
Puebla
and
Veracruz
(
Mexico
).
SYNONYMS:
orizabae
.
COMMENTS: Subgenus
Otisorex
.
Contrary to
Findley (1955b)
, this species does not include
emarginatus
or
ventralis
,
which
Diersing and Hoffmeister (1977)
placed in the subgenus
Sorex
.
S. orizabae
was included in
vagrans
by
Hennings and Hoffmann (1977:8)
but later included in
oreopolus
by
Junge and Hoffmann (1981:43)
.