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 volnuchini Ognev, 1922 . Ann. Mus . Zool. Akad. St. Petersbourg, 22:322 . TYPE LOCALITY: Ukraine , Krasnodarskii kr., Adygeiskaya A.O. [middle course], r. Kisha (see Pavlinov and Rossolimo, 1987 ) . DISTRIBUTION: S Ukraine and Caucasus; possibly Turkey and N Iran . COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Formerly included in minutus but specimens from Caucasus have a slighly different karyotype (2n=40, NF=60) which led Kozlovskii (1973) and Sokolov and Tembotov (1989) to regard volnuchini as a full species. The karyotype of S. buchariensis is very similar ( Ivanitskaya et al., 1977 ). Morphologically, volnuchini is not distinguishable from minutus ; also, the karyotype of topotypical specimens needs to be studied to clarify the status of volnuchini .