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 bedfordiae Thomas, 1911 . Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911(90):3 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Omi-san, Sze-chwan" [= China , Sichuan , Emei Shan] . DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests of S Gansu and W Shensi to Yunnan ( China ); adjacent Burma and Nepal . SYNONYMS: gomphus, fumeolus, nepalensis, wardii. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Formerly a subspecies of cylindricauda but recognized as a full species by Corbet (1978c) and Hoffmann (1987) .