Order Soricomorpha Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 220 311 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Blarinella Thomas 1911 Blarinella Thomas 1911 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911: 166 . Type Species: Sorex quadraticauda Milne-Edwards 1872 Species and subspecies: 3 species: Species Blarinella griselda Thomas 1912 Species Blarinella quadraticauda (Milne-Edwards 1872) Species Blarinella wardi Thomas 1915 Discussion: Formerly in Soricini ; see Repenning (1967:61) . The genus is known from the Late Miocene of China ( Storch and Qiu, 1991 ); supposed records from the Pleistocene of Europe ( Reumer, 1984 , Rzebik-Kowalska, 1989 ) refer to Alloblarinella Storch, 1995 ; see Storch (1995 a ) and Reumer (1998) . Extant taxa revised by Jiang et al. (2003) .