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 shinto Thomas, 1905 . Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(23):19 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Makado, near Nohechi, N Hondo [Honshu, Japan ]" . DISTRIBUTION: Honshu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido ( Japan ). SYNONYMS: chouei, saevus, shikokensis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Included in caecutiens by Abe (1967) and Corbet (1978c) , but Imaizumi (1970b) treated shinto as a separate species, a view supported by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) , and by the allozyme data of George (1988) .