Notiosorex Coues 1877

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 280

Notiosorex Coues 1877

Notiosorex Coues 1877 , Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., 3: 646.

Type Species: Sorex (Notiosorex) crawfordi Coues 1877

Species and subspecies: 4 species:

Species Notiosorex cockrumi Baker, O'Neill, and McAliley 2003

Species Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877

Species Notiosorex evotis Coues 1877

Species Notiosorex villai Carraway and Timm 2000

Discussion: Repenning (1967:45) placed the genus in Neomyini . Reumer (1984:14) created a new tribe Notiosoricini to include Notiosorex , but George (1986:160) could find no evidence to support this separation. Hall (1981:65) included also Megasorex gigas , but Repenning (1967:56), Armstrong and Jones (1972), and George (1986) considered Megasorex a distinct genus. Notiosorex (Xenosorex) phillipsii belongs to Cryptotis ; see Choate (1969) and Woodman and Timm (2000). Lindsay and Jacobs (1985) described an extinct species from Pliocene sediments of Chihuahua, Mexico. Extant species revised by Carraway and Timm (2000) and Baker et al. (2003 a).