Sorex roboratus Hollister, 1913 . Smithson. Misc. Coll., 60(24):2.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Siberia, Altai Mtns., Tapucha .

DISTRIBUTION: Altai Mtns.

COMMENT: If this species is conspecific with vir, the name roboratus apparently has priority; see Yudin, 1971, [Insectivorous Mammals of Siberia], Nauka, Novosibirsk, p. 105. Considered a subspecies of araneus by Gromov and Baranova, 1981:17.