Sorex unguiculatus Dobson, 1890

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 121-122

Sorex unguiculatus Dobson, 1890 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 5:155.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, "Saghalien [Sakhalin] Island; Nikolajewsk, at the mouth of the Amur River." Ognev (1928:204) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:52) both restricted the type locality to Sakhalin Isl .

DISTRIBUTION: Pacific coast of Siberia from Vladivostok to the Amur, and the islands of Sakhalin ( Russia) and Hokkaido ( Japan); from Corbet (1978c).

SYNONYMS: yesoensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . The inclusion of yesoensis follows Abe (1967). Skaren (1964) suggested a relationship with obscurus (= monticolus ) but this was rejected by Siivonen (1965) and Hoffmann (1971).