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 Blarina brevicauda (Say, 1823) . In Long, Account Exped. Pittsburgh to Rocky Mtns, 1:164 . TYPE LOCALITY: USA , Engineer cantonment, west bank of the Missouri R .; restricted to Nebraska , Washington Co., approximately 2 miles east Ft. Calhoun by Jones (1964:68) . DISTRIBUTION: S Canada west to C Saskatchewan and east to SE Canada , south to Nebraska and N Virginia ( USA ). SYNONYMS: aloga, angusta, angusticeps, churchi, compacta, costaricensis, dekayi, fossilis, hooperi, kirtlandi, manitobensis, micrurus, ozarkensis, pallida, simplicidens, talpoides , telmalestes. COMMENTS: Includes telmalestes (see review by George et al., 1986 , Mammalian Species, 261), which Hall (1981:57) listed as a distinct species.