Sorex arcticus Kerr, 1792 . Anim. Kingdom, p. 206.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Ontario, settlement at mouth of Severn River (now Fort Severn), Hudson Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: W.C. Yukon and S. W. Northwest Terr, to S. Quebec, Nova Scotia, and S. New Brunswick (Canada); N. North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin (U.S.A.).

COMMENT: Palearctic species currently referred to arcticus (Gromov and Baranova, 1981: 18) have been referred to tundrensis by Junge et al., 1981, Abst. Tech. Pap., 61 st Ann. Meet., Am. Soc. Mamm., No. 45; see also Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:47, Junge and Hoffmann, 1981:42.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018004001.