Sorex monticolus Merriam, 1890

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 118

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

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "San Francisco Mountain, Coconino Co., Arizona ...altitude 3,500 meters (11,500 feet)" .

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

SYNONYMS: alascensis, calvertensis, dobsoni , durangae, elassodon, glacialis, insularis , isolatus, longicauda, longiquus, malitiosus, melanogenys, mixtus, neomexicanus, obscurus, obscuroides, prevostensis, shumaginensis, setosus ; similis (Merriam, not of Hensel), soperi.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Includes obscurus and durangae, which were previously included in vagrans and saussurei respectively; see Hennings and Hoffmann (1977) and map in Junge and Hoffmann (1981); other synonyms follow van Zyll de Jong (1983a) and George and Smith (1991). Related to pacificus (see George, 1988).