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 merriami Dobson, 1890 . Monogr. Insectivora, pt. 3 (Soricidae), fase. 1, pl. 23 . TYPE LOCALITY: USA , "Fort Custer, Montana " = Bighorn Co., Little Bighorn River, ca. 1 mile above Fort Custer (= Hardin) . DISTRIBUTION: Xeric habitats in EC Washington to N and E California , Arizona , northeastward to Nebraska , Wyoming and Montana ( USA ). SYNONYMS: leucogenys. COMMENTS: Referred to unnamed subgenus by George (1988:456) . Reviewed by Armstrong and Jones (1971 b , Mammalian Species, 2).