Sorex veraepacis Alston, 1877 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877:445.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Coban (Vera Paz) [Alta Verapaz], Guatemala."

DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests of C Guerrero, Puebla, and Veracruz, south through the highlands of Oaxaca and Chiapas (Mexico), to SW Guatemala.

SYNONYMS: chiapensis; caudatus (Merriam, not of Horsfield), mutabilis, teculyas.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Otisorex . May be conspecific with macrodon (see Junge and Hoffmann, 1981:43).