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Greater Ryukyu White-toothed Shrew

Crocidura orii

Order
Eulipotyphla
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Crocidura
IUCN status
EN
Distribution
Japan
Realm
Palearctic

Other names: Amami Shrew|Orii's Shrew

About this species

Greater Ryukyu White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura orii) is a white-toothed shrew recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Endangered (Japan MOE Red List 2020).

Description: Wildlife of Japan guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com)

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