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 Blarinella Thomas, 1911 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911: 166 . TYPE SPECIES: Sorex quadraticauda Milne-Edwards, 1872 . COMMENTS: Tribe Soricini ; see Repenning (1967:61) . The genus is known from the Late Miocene of China ( Storch and Qiu, 1991 ), and was also recorded from the Pleistocene of Europe ( Reumer, 1984 ).