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 Soriculus macrurus Blanford, 1888 . Fauna Brit. India , 1:231 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Darjeeling, India ." DISTRIBUTION: C Nepal to W and S China and to N Burma and Vietnam . SYNONYMS: irene, leucops . COMMENTS: Subgenus Episoriculus . Formerly confused with leucops , but shown to be a distinct species by Hoffmann (1985b) .