Chinese Highland Shrew – Sorex excelsus

Sorex excelsusG. M. Allen, 1923

Accepted name, Mammal Species of the World 2005

Subgenus Sorex. Considered as a possible subspecies of asper (Corbet, 1978c) but retained as a full species related to tundrensis by Hoffmann (1987) who also suggested that a specimen from Nepal recorded by Agrawal and Chakraborty (1971) may represent excelsus. However, mtDNA data indicate that excelsus is neither related to asper nor to tundrensis (Fumagalli et al., 1999).

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.