Order Insectivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 58 106 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353001 0-89327-235-3 7353001 Sorex shinto Thomas, 1906 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905:338 . TYPE LOCALITY: Japan , N. Hondo, Aomori Ken , Makado . DISTRIBUTION: Honshu, Shikoku, Hokkaido ( Japan ); Kunashir Isl., Sakhalin ( U.S. S.R.). COMMENT: Included in caecutiens by Corbet, 1978:20, but Imaizumi, 1970, The Handbook of Japanese Land Mammals, Vol. 1, treated shinto as a separate species.