Sorex ornatus Merriam, 1895

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

Sorex ornatus Merriam, 1895 . N. Am. Fauna, 10:79.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "San Emigdio Canyon, Mt. Pinos [Kern Co.], California " .

DISTRIBUTION: California coastal ranges from N of San Francisco Bay to N part and S tip of Baja California; Santa Catalina Isl.

SYNONYMS: californicus, juncensis, lagunae, oreinus, relictus, salarius, salicornicus, sinuosus, willetti.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Reviewed by Owen and Hoffmann (1983, Mammalian Species, 212), who recognized 9 subspecies. For further distributional information see Williams (1979) and Junge and Hoffmann (1981); for karyotype and allozyme data see Brown and Rudd (1981) and George (1988).