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 Neomys schelkovnikovi Satunin, 1913 . Trud. Obshch. Izuch. Chernomorsk. Poberezh., 3:24 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Svanetiya," = Georgia , Mestiiskii r-n., Ushkul (see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987:29 ) . DISTRIBUTION: Caucasus ( Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia ); and perhaps adjacent Turkey and Iran . SYNONYMS: balkaricus, leptodactylus. COMMENTS: Left incertae sedis by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) , but given specific rank by most recent Russian authors. Reviewed by Sokolov and Tembotov (1989) .