Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:53.

TYPE LOCALITY: E USA; fixed by Jackson (1915:33) to Pennsylvania, Philadelphia .

DISTRIBUTION: N Tamaulipas and N Coahuila (Mexico) through E USA to Massachusetts and Minnesota.

SYNONYMS: aereus, alleni, anastasae, argentatus, australis, bassi, caryi, cryptus, cupreata, howelli, inflatus, intermedins, machrinoides, machrinus, nwntanus, nanus, parvus, pennsylvanica, porteri, pulcher, sericea, texanus, virginianus.

COMMENTS: Includes inflatus and nwntanus; see Yates and Schmidly (1977). Yates and Schmidly (1978, Mammalian Species, 105) listed sixteen subspecies. Gureev (1979:254) listed aereus and inflatus as distinct species without comment. Hall (1981:72) included aereus and inflatus in aquaticus .