Blarina carolinensis (Bachman, 1837) . J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7:366.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "in the upper and maritime districts of South Carolina " .

DISTRIBUTION: S Illinois east to N Virginia, and south through E Texas and N Florida (USA).

SYNONYMS: peninsulae, shermani.

COMMENTS: For specific status see Genoways and Choate (1972) and Tate et al. (1980). Hall (1981:54) listed carolinensis as a subspecies of brevicauda . The Florida population (peninsulae) may represent a valid species (George et al., 1982).