family Soricidae

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family Soricidae - shrews

Soricidae

mammal family - a family of mammals

Insectivora, order Insectivora - shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs

shrewmouse, shrew - small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles

genus Sorex, Sorex - type genus of the family Soricidae: shrews

Blarina, genus Blarina - shrews

genus Neomys, Neomys - a genus of Soricidae

Cryptotis, genus Cryptotis - least shrews

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A case study of six european species of the family Soricidae. Acta Zool.

Age and sex skull variation in a model population of the common shrew (Sorex araneus)

Family Soricidae. Pages 39-52 in Mamiferos del noroeste de Mexico (S.

Late pleistocene shrews and bats (Mammalia: Soricomorpha and Chiroptera) from Terapa, a neotropical-nearctic transitional locality in Sonora, Mexico

To investigate whether small mammals, especially bicolored white-toothed shrews (Crocidura leucodon), which act as BDV reservoirs in Switzerland (1,2), harbor BDV in diseaseendemic areas in Bavaria, Germany, we screened 120 small mammals (53 from the family Cricetidae, 41 from the family Muridae, and 26 from the family Soricidae) (Table).

Bicolored white-toothed shrews as reservoir for Borna disease virus, Bavaria, Germany