Sorex tenellus Merriam, 1895
| Two new shrews of the Sorex tenellus group from California C H Merriam (1902) Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington 15: 75-76 | |
| Catalogue of the type-specimens of mammals in the United States National Museum, including the biological survey collection Marcus Ward and Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1909) Bulletin - United States National Museum 62: 1-339 | |
| A distributional list of the mammals of California Joseph Grinnell (1913) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 3: 265-390 | |
| Catalog of the type specimens of mammals in the United States National Museum, including the biological surveys collection Arthur J Poole and Viola S Schantz (1942) Bulletin - United States National Museum 178: 1-705 | |
| An annotated key to the long-tailed shrews (genus Sorex) of the United States and Canada, with notes on the Middle American Sorex J A Junge and R S Hoffman (1981) Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas 94: 1-48 |