Sorex ventralis Merriam, 1895

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 58-106 : 98

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scientific name	Sorex ventralis Merriam, 1895
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Sorex ventralis Merriam, 1895 . N. Am. Fauna, 10:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Oaxaca, Cerro San Felipe, 1,000 ft. (305 m) .

DISTRIBUTION: N. W. Puebla to Oaxaca ( Mexico).

COMMENT: Considered a subspecies of oreopolus by Findley, 1955, Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:613-618, but ventralis is in the subgenus Sorex and oreopolus is in the subgenus Otisorex ; see Diersing and Hoffmeister, 1977, J. Mammal., 58:331. Similar to saussurei but smaller; see Junge and Hoffmann, 1981:44. See also comments under oreopolus and emarginatus .