Red-toothed shrew

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Soricinae^[1]

Baird's Shrew

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Soricomorpha
Family:	Soricidae
Subfamily:	Soricinae

Genera

See species list

The Red-toothed shrews or Soricinae are one of three living subfamilies: Crocidurinae (White-toothed shrews), Myosoricinae (African white-toothed shrews) and Soricinae (Red-toothed shrews). In addition, the family contains the extinct subfamilies Limnoecinae, Crocidosoricinae, Allosoricinae and Heterosoricinae. The outer layer of their teeth is reddish and is known to contain iron deposits. These species are typically found in North America, Europe and northern Asia.

The list of species is:^[1]^[2]

Tribe Anourosoricini
- Genus Anourosorex (mole shrews)
  - Assam Mole Shrew (A. assamensis)
  - Giant Mole Shrew (A. schmidi)
  - Chinese Mole Shrew (A. squamipes)
  - Taiwanese Mole Shrew (A. yamashinai)
Tribe Blarinellini
- Genus Blarinella (Asiatic short-tailed shrews)
  - Indochinese Short-tailed Shrew (B. griselda)
  - Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew (B. quadraticauda)
  - Burmese Short-tailed Shrew (B. wardi)
Tribe Blarinini
- Genus Blarina (American short-tailed shrews)
  - Northern Short-tailed Shrew (B. brevicauda)
  - Southern Short-tailed Shrew (B. carolinensis)
  - Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew (B. hylophaga)
  - Everglades Short-tailed Shrew (B. peninsulae)
- Genus Cryptotis (Small-eared shrews)
  - Mexican Small-eared Shrew (C. mexicana)
  - Nelson's Small-eared Shrew (C. nelsoni)
  - Grizzled Small-eared Shrew (C. obscura)
  - Phillips' Smal-eared Shrew (C. phillipsii)
  - Central Mexican Broad-clawed Shrew (C. alticola)
  - Goldman's Broad-clawed Shrew (C. goldmani)
  - Goodwin's Broad-clawed Shrew (C. goodwini)
  - Guatemalan Broad-clawed Shrew (C. griseoventris)
  - Oaxacan Broad-clawed Shrew (C. peregrina)
  - Eastern Cordillera Small-footed Shrew (C. brachyonyx)
  - Colombian Small-footed Shrew (C. colombiana)
  - Honduran Small-eared Shrew (C. hondurensis)
  - Yucatan Small-eared Shrew (C. mayensis)
  - Darién Small-eared Shrew (C. mera)
  - Merriam's Small-eared Shrew (C. merriami)
  - Blackish Small-eared Shrew (C. nigrescens)
  - Ecuadorean Small-eared Shrew (C. equatoris)
  - Medellín Small-eared Shrew (C. medellinia)
  - Merida Small-eared Shrew (C. meridensis)
  - Wandering Small-eared Shrew (C. montivaga)
  - Peruvian Small-eared Shrew (C. peruviensis)
  - Western Colombian Small-eared Shrew (C. squaipes)
  - Tamá Small-eared Shrew (C. tamensis)
  - Thomas' Small-eared Shrew (C. thomasi)
  - Central American Least Shrew (C. orophila)
  - North American Least Shrew (C. parva)
  - Tropical Small-eared Shrew (C. tropicalis)
  - Enders's Small-eared Shrew (C. endersi)
  - Talamancan Small-eared Shrew (C. gracilis)
  - Big Mexican Small-eared Shrew (C. magna)

Southern Water Shrew (Neomys anomalus)

Tribe Nectogalini
- Genus Chimarrogale (Asiatic water shrews)
  - Malayan Water Shrew (C. hantu)
  - Himalayan Water Shrew (C. himalayica)
  - Bornean Water Shrew (C. phaeura)
  - Japanese Water Shrew (C. platycephalus)
  - Chinese Water Shrew (C. styani)
  - Sumatran Water Shrew (C. sumatrana)
- Genus Chodsigoa
  - Van Sung's Shrew (C. cauvansunga)
  - De Winton's Shrew (C. hypsibia)
  - Lamulate Shrew (C. lamula)
  - Lowe's Shrew (C. parca)
  - Pygmy Brown-toothed Shrew (C. parva)
  - Salenski's Shrew (C. salenskii)
  - Smith's Shrew (C. smithii)
  - Lesser Taiwanese Shrew (C. sodalis)
- Genus Episoriculus
  - Hodgsons's Brown-toothed Shrew (E. caudatus)
  - Taiwanese Brown-toothed Shrew (E. fumidus)
  - Long-tailed Brown-toothed Shrew (E. leucops)
  - Long-tailed Mountain Shrew (E. macrurus)
- Genus Nectogale
  - Elegant Water Shrew (N. elegans)
- Genus Neomys (Eurasian water shrews)
  - Mediterranean Water Shrew (N. anomalus)
  - Eurasian Water Shrew (N. fodiens)
  - Transcaucasian Water Shrew (N. teres)
- Genus †Nesiotites
  - Balearic Shrew (†N. hidalgo)
  - Sardinian Shrew (†N. similis)
- Genus Soriculus
  - Himalayan Shrew (S. nigrescens)
Tribe Notiosoricini
- Genus Megasorex
  - Mexican Shrew (M. gigas)
- Genus Notiosorex
  - Cockrum's Gray Shrew (N. cockrumi)
  - Crawford's Gray Shrew (N. crawfordi)
  - Large-eared Gray Shrew (N. evotis)
  - Villa's Gray Shrew (N. villai)
Tribe Soricini
- Genus Sorex (Long-tailed shrews)
  - Kashmir Pygmy Shrew (S. planiceps)
  - Tibetan Shrew (S. thibetanus)
  - Subgenus Otisorex
    - Long-tailed Shrew (S. dispar)
    - Smoky Shrew (S. fumeus)
    - Gaspé Shrew (S. gaspensis)
    - American Pygmy Shrew (S. hoyi)
    - Large-toothed Shrew (S. macrodon)
    - Carmen Mountain Shrew (S. milleri)
    - Dwarf Shrew (S. nanus)
    - Mexican Long-tailed Shrew (S. oreopolus)
    - Orizaba Long-tailed Shrew (S. orizabae)
    - Ornate Shrew (S. ornatus)
    - Inyo Shrew (S. tenellus)
    - Verapaz Shrew (S. veraepacis)
    - S. vagrans complex
      - Glacier Bay Water Shrew (S. alaskanus)
      - Baird's Shrew (S. bairdii)
      - Marsh Shrew (S. bendirii)
      - Dusky Shrew (S. monticolus)
      - New Mexico Shrew (S. neomexicanus)
      - Pacific Shrew (S. pacificus)
      - American Water Shrew (S. palustris)
      - Fog Shrew (S. sonomae)
      - Vagrant Shrew (S. vagrans)
    - S. cinereus group
      - Kamchatka Shrew (S. camtschatica)
      - Cinereus Shrew (S. cinereus)
      - Prairie Shrew (S. haydeni)
      - Saint Lawrence Island Shrew (S. jacksoni)
      - Paramushir Shrew (S. leucogaster)
      - Southeastern Shrew (S. longirostris)
      - Mount Lyell Shrew (S. lyelli)
      - Portenko's Shrew (S. portenkoi)
      - Preble's Shrew (S. preblei)
      - Pribilof Island Shrew (S. pribilofensis)
      - Barren Ground Shrew (S. ugyunak)
  - Subgenus Sorex
    - Dneper Common Shrew (S. averini)
    - Lesser Striped Shrew (S. bedfordiae)
    - Stripe-backed Shrew (S. cylindricauda)
    - Chinese Highland Shrew (S. excelsus)
    - Azumi Shrew (S. hosonoi)
    - Chinese Shrew (S. sinalis)
    - Alaska Tiny Shrew (S. yukonicus)
    - S. alpinus group
      - Alpine Shrew (S. alpinus)
      - Ussuri Shrew (S. mirabilis)
    - S. araneus group
      - Valais Shrew (S. antinorii)
      - Common Shrew (S. araneus)
      - Udine Shrew (S. arunchi)
      - Millet's Shrew (S. coronatus)
      - Siberian Large-toothed Shrew (S. daphaenodon)
      - Iberian Shrew (S. granarius)
      - Caucasian Shrew (S. satunini)
    - S. arcticus group
      - Arctic Shrew (S. arcticus)
      - Maritime Shrew (S. maritimensis)
    - S. tundrensis
      - Tien Shan Shrew (S. asper)
      - Gansu Shrew (S. cansulus)
      - Tundra Shrew (S. tundrensis)
    - S. minutus group
      - Buchara Shrew (S. buchariensis)
      - Kozlov's Shrew (S. kozlovi)
      - Caucasian Pygmy Shrew (S. volnuchini)
    - S. caecutiens group
      - Laxmann's Shrew (S. caecutiens)
      - Taiga Shrew (S. isodon)
      - Eurasian Least Shrew (S. minutissimus)
      - Eurasian Pygmy Shrew (S. minutus)
      - Flat-skulled Shrew (S. roboratus)
      - Shinto Shrew (S. shinto)
      - Long-clawed Shrew (S. unguiculatus)
    - S. gracillimus group
      - Slender Shrew (S. gracillimus)
    - S. raddei
      - Radde's Shrew (S. raddei)
    - S. samniticus
      - Apennine Shrew (S. samniticus)
  - Subgenus incertae sedis
    - Arizona Shrew (S. arizonae)
    - Zacatecas Shrew (S. emarginatus)
    - Merriam's Shrew (S. merriami)
    - Saussure's Shrew (S. saussurei)
    - Sclater's Shrew (S. sclateri)
    - San Cristobal Shrew (S. stizodon)
    - Trowbridge's Shrew (S. trowbridgii)
    - Chestnut-bellied Shrew (S. ventralis)
    - Veracruz Shrew (S. veraecrucis)

[edit] Reference

^ ^a ^b Hutterer, Rainer (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 267-300. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
^ New Species Of Desert Shrew Found In Southern Arizona. ScienceDaily. Retrieved on May 14, 2006.