Sorex shinto Thomas, 1906 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905:338.

TYPE LOCALITY: Japan, N. Hondo, Aomori Ken, Makado .

DISTRIBUTION: Honshu, Shikoku, Hokkaido (Japan); Kunashir Isl., Sakhalin (U.S. S.R.).

COMMENT: Included in caecutiens by Corbet, 1978:20, but Imaizumi, 1970, The Handbook of Japanese Land Mammals, Vol. 1, treated shinto as a separate species.