Condylura cristata

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Noun1.Condylura cristata - amphibious mole of eastern North America having pink fleshy tentacles around the noseCondylura cristata - amphibious mole of eastern North America having pink fleshy tentacles around the nose
starnose mole, star-nosed mole
mole - small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet
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As a similar example, it is known that the star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata, which is distributed in North America has width variations, such as swollen conditions, in the tail (Hamilton 1931, Eadie & Hamilton 1956, Imaizumi & Obara 1966, Petersen & Yates 1980).
A histological study of tail width variation in the greater Japanese shrew-mole, Urotrichus talpoides
fumeus), pygmy shrew (.S', hoyi), common water shrew (.S', palustris), northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda), star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), least chipmunk (Tamias minimus), eastern chipmunk (T.
Distribution of a boreal rodent linked to a lobe of the Wisconsinan glaciation
Star-nosed moles, Condylura cristata, have an incredible sense of touch in their tentacled schnozzes and are among the world's fastest foragers.
Mole sniffs the world in stereo: nostrils of unlovely mammal can track direction to odors
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