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 palustris Richardson, 1828 . Zool. J., 3:517 . TYPE LOCALITY: Canada , "marshy places, from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains."; not specified . DISTRIBUTION: Montane and boreal areas of North America below the tree line from Alaska to the Sierra Nevada , Rocky and Appalachian Mtns. SYNONYMS: acadicus (Allen, not of Gilpin), albibarbis, brooksi, gloveralleni, hydrobadistes, labradorensis, navigator, punctulatus, turneri. COMMENTS: Formerly placed in genus Neosorex Baird ; now in Sorex (Otisorex) . Reviewed by Beneski and Stinson (1987 , Mammalian Species, 296), who recognized 9 subspecies. They did not include alaskanus as suggested by Junge and Hoffmann (1981:28) and Hall (1981:43) ; George (1988) also treated alaskanus as distinct.