Mammals of the WorldUssuri White-toothed Shrew
Crocidura lasiura
- Order
- Eulipotyphla
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Crocidura
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- Russia|China|North Korea|South Korea
- Realm
- Palearctic
Other names: Ussuri Shrew
About this species
- Habitat
- Forest-steppe
- Range
- Russian Ussuri region and northeastern China south to Korea
The Ussuri white-toothed shrew, Crocidura lasiura, is a musk shrew of mainland Northeast Asia and one of the region's largest shrews. George Edward Dobson described it in 1890 from the Ussuri River region. It must not be confused with the Ussuri shrew, Sorex mirabilis, which belongs to another genus. Published catalogue treatments also record a chromosome complement of 2n = 40 and fundamental number 56 (Mammal Species of the World; Wikipedia, general species account).
Its documented distribution extends from the Ussuri region of Russia through northeastern China to Korea, with records reaching Jiangsu. A recent Russian research summary describes it as common in the forest-steppe zone of central Northeast Asia. The opened sources establish range, taxonomy and broad habitat but do not give sufficiently detailed Korean diet, reproduction, size or activity data. Those traits are therefore left unstated rather than inferred from the very diverse genus Crocidura (Mammal Species of the World; FEB RAS species study).
Description: Wildlife of Korea guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)