Sorex alaskanus Merriam, 1900

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 111

Sorex alaskanus Merriam, 1900 . Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 2: 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Point Gustavus, Glacier Bay, Alaska " .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . The species was tentatively included in palustris by Junge and Hoffmann (1981), but retained as a species by Hall (1981), Jones et al. (1982), and George (1988); a view supported by the skull figures and measurements given by Jackson (1928). Apparently the species has not been collected again since 1899.