Sorex pacificus Coues, 1877 . Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., 3(3):650.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Fort Umpqua [mouth Umpqua River, Douglas County], Oregon."

DISTRIBUTION: Forests of coastal Oregon (USA).

SYNONYMS: cascadensis, yaquinae.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Not conspecific with mirabilis; see Yudin (1969) and Hoffmann (1971). Related to monticolus; see Findley (19556), Junge and Hoffmann (1981), and George (1988). Reviewed by Carraway (1985, Mammalian Species, 231), who later (1990) removed sonomae from synonymy; see comments under that species.