Sorex (Sorex) coronatus Millet 1828

Sorex (Sorex) coronatus Millet 1828, Faune de Maine-et-Loire, Part I: 18.

Type Locality: France, Main-et-Loire, Blou.

Vernacular Names: Millet's Shrew.

Synonyms: Sorex (Sorex) euronotus Miller 1901; Sorex (Sorex) fretalis Miller 1909; Sorex (Sorex) gemellus Ott 1968; Sorex (Sorex) personatus Millet 1828; Sorex (Sorex) santonus Mottaz 1906 .

Distribution: W Europe from the Netherlands and NW Germany to France and Switzerland, south to N Spain; also in Jersey (Channel Isls), Liechtenstein and westernmost tip of Austria.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Sorex, S. araneus group. A sibling species of araneus (Meylan and Hausser, 1978), characterized mainly by the karyotype (2n = 22/24, FN = 44). Its distribution broadly overlaps with that of araneus in Germany. Revised by Hausser (1990), range map in Mitchell-Jones et al. (1999).