Crocidura sibirica Dukelski, 1930. Zool. Anz., 88(l-4):75.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., S. Krasnoyarsky Krai, upper Yenisei River, 96 km S. of Minusinsk, Oznatchenoie.

DISTRIBUTION: C. Asia from Lake Issyk Kul to Upper Ob River; Lake Baikal; Sinkiang (China) (SW); perhaps Mongolia.

COMMENT: Includes ognevi; see Yudin, 1971, [Insectivorous Mammals of Siberia], Nauka, Novosibirsk, p. 146. OLR reported that this species does not occur in Mongolia; but see also Corbet, 1978:29; Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:50.