Sorex vagrans Baird, 1858

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 58-106 : 97

Sorex vagrans Baird, 1858 . Mammals, in Repts. Expl. Surv ...., 8(1): 15.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Washington, Pacific Co., Shoalwater Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: Riparian and montane areas of the northern Great Basin and Columbia Plateau, north to S. British Columbia and Vancouver Isl. ( Canada); east to W. Montana, W. Wyoming, Wasatch Mtns. (N. Utah); C. Nevada to Sierra Nevadas, (Calif.) and south to San Francisco Bay ( U.S.A.); possibly Transvolcanic Belt (=Transverse Volcanic Belt) in Mexico.

COMMENT: Includes trigonirostris ; see Hennings and Hoffmann, 1977, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 68:8. S. v. orizabae of Mexico may be conspecific with S. oreopolus ; see comments under oreopolus , and Junge and Hoffmann, 1981:43.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018039001 as S. vagrans .

5301403007018037001 as S. trigonirostris .