Mammals of the WorldHorsfield's White-toothed Shrew
Crocidura horsfieldii
- Order
- Eulipotyphla
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Crocidura
- IUCN status
- DD
- Distribution
- India|Nepal?|Sri Lanka
- Realm
- Palearctic|Indomalaya
Other names: Horsfield's Shrew
About this species
- Size
- Head and body 6–7cm; tail 5–6cm
- Range
- Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam
Horsfield's shrew is a small shrew with dusky brown fur above and dusky grey below. Head and body measure 6 to 7cm and the tail 5 to 6cm. It differs from the pygmy shrew by its larger size and blackish feet. It is recorded in Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam (Wikipedia, general species account).
The Mammal Diversity Database marks Nepal with a query for this species, so its occurrence there is not firmly settled. The short source opened gives nothing on diet, habitat or breeding, so none is stated, and the entry is flagged as thin. Nationally Data Deficient (Nepal National Red List 2011).
Description: Wildlife of Nepal guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)