Sorex preblei Jackson, 1922 . J. Washington Acad. Sci., 12:263.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, " Jordan Valley, altitude 4,200 feet, Malheur County, Oregon."

DISTRIBUTION: Columbia Plateau of Washington, Oregon and Nevada to W Great Plains of Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado (specimen 74262 in the National Museum of Natural History) (USA). For reviews of distributional records, see Tomasi and Hoffmann (1984) and Long and Hoffmann (1992).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex .