Sorex satunini Ognev, 1922 . Ann. Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci., 22:311.

TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Kars, Goele, "Gel'skaya kotlovina [depression], Mvuzaret" .

DISTRIBUTION: N Turkey and Caucasus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Formerly referred to as caucasicus Satunin, which is now synonymized with raddei Satunin; see Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) and Zaitsev (1988). Sokolov and Tembotov (1989), who reviewed the distribution in Caucasus, used caucasicus for this species. Considered a distinct species by Graf et al. (1979).