Sorex longirostris Bachman, 1837

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 116-117

Sorex longirostris Bachman, 1837 . J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7:370.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "in the swamps of Santee [River], South Carolina "; restricted to Hume Plantation (Cat Island in the mouth of Santee River) by Jackson (1928:85) .

DISTRIBUTION: SE USA (except S Florida) west to Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Threatened as Sorex longirostris fisheri .

SYNONYMS: bachmani, eionis, fisheri, wagneri.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . As pointed out by Junge and Hoffmann (1981), this species is inappropriately named because it has one of the shortest rostra of North American Sorex . Junge and Hoffmann (1981) also suggested that shrews of the Great Dismal Swamp described as fisheri and traditionally included in longirostris as a subspecies are much larger and may represent a valid species. Reviewed by French (1980, Mammalian Species, 143). Part of range mapped in detail by Pagels and Handley (1989) and Pagels et al. (1982).