Sorex shinto Thomas, 1905 . Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905(23):19.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Makado, near Nohechi, N Hondo [Honshu, Japan]" .

DISTRIBUTION: Honshu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido (Japan).

SYNONYMS: chouei, saevus, shikokensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Included in caecutiens by Abe (1967) and Corbet (1978c), but Imaizumi (1970b) treated shinto as a separate species, a view supported by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987), and by the allozyme data of George (1988).