Blarinella Thomas 1911

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

Type Species: Sorex quadraticauda Milne-Edwards 1872

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Blarinella griselda Thomas 1912

Species Blarinella quadraticauda (Milne-Edwards 1872)

Species Blarinella wardi Thomas 1915

Discussion: Formerly in Soricini; see Repenning (1967:61). The genus is known from the Late Miocene of China (Storch and Qiu, 1991); supposed records from the Pleistocene of Europe (Reumer, 1984, Rzebik-Kowalska, 1989) refer to Alloblarinella Storch, 1995; see Storch (1995 a) and Reumer (1998). Extant taxa revised by Jiang et al. (2003).