Sorex coronatus Millet, 1828 . Faune de Maine-et-Loire, I, p. 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: France, Main-et-Loire, Blou .

DISTRIBUTION: W Europe from The Netherlands and NW Germany to France and Switzerland, south to N Spain; also in Jersey (Channel Isis), Liechtenstein and westernmost tip of Austria.

SYNONYMS: euronotus, fretalis, gemellus, personatus, santonus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . A sibling species of araneus (Meylan and Hausser, 1978), characterized mainly by the karyotype. Its distribution broadly overlaps with that of araneus in Germany. Revised by Hausser (1990).