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 preblei Jackson, 1922 . J. Washington Acad. Sci., 12:263 . TYPE LOCALITY: USA , " Jordan Valley, altitude 4,200 feet , Malheur County, Oregon." DISTRIBUTION: Columbia Plateau of Washington , Oregon and Nevada to W Great Plains of Montana , Utah , Wyoming , and Colorado (specimen 74262 in the National Museum of Natural History) ( USA ). For reviews of distributional records, see Tomasi and Hoffmann (1984) and Long and Hoffmann (1992) . COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex .