Blarinella Thomas, 1911

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

Blarinella Thomas, 1911 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911: 166.

TYPE SPECIES: Sorex quadraticauda Milne-Edwards, 1872 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Soricini ; see Repenning (1967:61). The genus is known from the Late Miocene of China ( Storch and Qiu, 1991), and was also recorded from the Pleistocene of Europe ( Reumer, 1984).