True's Shrew Mole

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True's Shrew Mole
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Talpidae
Genus: Dymecodon
Species: D. pilirostris
Binomial name
Dymecodon pilirostris
(True, 1886)

True's Shrew Mole (Dymecodon pilirostris) is a species of mammal in the Talpidae family. It is endemic to Japan.

It is the only species in the genus Dymecodon . It was recently removed from the genus Urotrichus.

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