Sorex monticolus Merriam, 1890 . N. Am. Fauna, 3:43.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Arizona, Coconino Co., San Francisco Mtn., 11500 ft. (3505 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: Montane boreal and coastal coniferous forest and alpine areas from Alaska to California and New Mexico, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado (U.S.A.) and to W. Manitoba (Canada); Chihuahua, Durango (Mexico).

COMMENT: Includes obscurus and durangae, which were previously included in vagrans and saussurei respectively; see Hennings and Hoffmann, 1977, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 68:1 -35.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018025001 as S. obscurus.