Sorex bedfordiae Thomas, 1911 . Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911(90):3.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Omi-san, Sze-chwan" [= China, Sichuan, Emei Shan] .

DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests of S Gansu and W Shensi to Yunnan (China); adjacent Burma and Nepal.

SYNONYMS: gomphus, fumeolus, nepalensis, wardii.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex . Formerly a subspecies of cylindricauda but recognized as a full species by Corbet (1978c) and Hoffmann (1987).