Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780 . Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:385.

REVIEWED BY: M. Andera (MA).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Kemerovsk. Obi., Mariinsk(= Kiiskoe), bank of Kiia River (near Yenesei R.) .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone from Norway, Sweden and Estonia to E. Siberia; Sakhalin; Hokkaido (Japan); Mongolia; Szechwan (China); perhaps Honshu (Japan).

COMMENT: Includes hawkeri; see Corbet, 1978:19.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018014001 as S. hawkeri .