Blarinella Thomas, 1911 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911: 166.

TYPE SPECIES: Sorex quadraticauda Milne-Edwards, 1872 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Soricini; see Repenning (1967:61). The genus is known from the Late Miocene of China (Storch and Qiu, 1991), and was also recorded from the Pleistocene of Europe (Reumer, 1984).