Sorex oreopolus Merriam, 1892

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

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scientific name	Sorex oreopolus Merriam, 1892
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Sorex oreopolus Merriam, 1892 . Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 7:173.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Sierra de Colima, Jalisco, Mexico (altitude 10,000 feet) [3,048 m]" .

DISTRIBUTION: Jalisco ( Mexico); perhaps east to Puebla and Veracruz ( Mexico).

SYNONYMS: orizabae .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Contrary to Findley (1955b), this species does not include emarginatus or ventralis , which Diersing and Hoffmeister (1977) placed in the subgenus Sorex . S. orizabae was included in vagrans by Hennings and Hoffmann (1977:8) but later included in oreopolus by Junge and Hoffmann (1981:43).