Sorex buchariensis Ognev, 1921

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 113

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) .