Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 117

Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780 . Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2:385.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Yenisei"; given by Stroganov (1957:176) as "iz raiona sela Kiiskow chto na r. Kie (nyne g. Mariinsk Kemerovskoi oblasti)" [= Russia, Kemerovsk. Obi., Mariinsk (= Kiiskoe), bank of Kiia River (near Yenesei River)]; Restricted by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:23) to "Krasnoyarskii kr., Krasnoyarsk."

DISTRIBUTION: Taiga zone from Norway, Sweden and Estonia to E Siberia; Sakhalin; Hokkaido, and perhaps Honshu ( Japan); Mongolia; China; South Korea.

SYNONYMS: abnormis, barabensis, burneyi, czekanovskii, caudata, exilis, hawkeri, ishikawai, karelicus, minimus, neglectus, perminutus, stroganovi, tscherskii, tschuktschorum, ussuriensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex or Eurosorex . Yoshiyuki (1988a) recognized nine subspecies.