Sorex buchariensis Ognev, 1921 . Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 22:320.

TYPE LOCALITY: Tadzhikistan, Pamir Mountains, Davan-su River Valley, "Gornaya Bukhara, drevyaya morena lednika Oshanina, dol. p. Davan-Su (khrebef Petra Velikavo)" [Montane Bukhara, ancient moraine of Oshanin glacier, Peter the Great range] .

DISTRIBUTION: Pamir Mtns (Tadzhikistan).

COMMENTS: Referred to subgenus Eurosorex by Yudin (1989). Considered a subspecies of thibetanus by Dolgov and Hoffmann (1977) and Hoffmann (1987), but retained as a distinct species by Ivanitskaya et al. (1977), Hutterer (1979), Zaitsev (1988), and Yudin (1989). The karyotype of two specimen from Tadshikistan was similar to that of volnuchini (Ivanitskaya et al., 1977) .