Blarina brevicauda (Say, 1823)

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 106

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scientific name	Blarina brevicauda (Say, 1823)
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Blarina brevicauda (Say, 1823) . In Long, Account Exped. Pittsburgh to Rocky Mtns, 1:164.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Engineer cantonment, west bank of the Missouri R.; restricted to Nebraska, Washington Co., approximately 2 miles east Ft. Calhoun by Jones (1964:68) .

DISTRIBUTION: S Canada west to C Saskatchewan and east to SE Canada, south to Nebraska and N Virginia ( USA).

SYNONYMS: aloga, angusta, angusticeps, churchi, compacta, costaricensis, dekayi, fossilis, hooperi, kirtlandi, manitobensis, micrurus, ozarkensis, pallida, simplicidens, talpoides , telmalestes.

COMMENTS: Includes telmalestes (see review by George et al., 1986, Mammalian Species, 261), which Hall (1981:57) listed as a distinct species.