Sorex tenellus Merriam, 1895

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 120-121

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Sorex tenellus Merriam, 1895 . N. Am. Fauna, 10:81.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "summit of Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, Owens Valley [Inyo Co.], California, about 45000 ft]."

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of WC Nevada and EC California ( USA).

SYNONYMS: myops.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . Similar to nanus with which it may form an allospecies ( Hoffmann and Owen, 1980, Mammalian Species, 131), but George (1988) retained both as separate species on the basis of allozyme frequencies.