Mammals of the WorldSiberian White-toothed Shrew
Crocidura sibirica
- Order
- Eulipotyphla
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Crocidura
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- Russia|Kazakhstan|Mongolia?|Kyrgyzstan?|China?
- Realm
- Palearctic
Other names: Siberian Shrew
About this species
- Size
- Head and body 5.8–8.0cm; tail 3.0–3.9cm
- Range
- Central to northeast Asia, from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to Siberia, Russia and Mongolia, and northwest China
The Siberian white-toothed shrew is a medium-sized Eurasian shrew with a head-and-body length of about 5.8–8.0 centimetres. The tail is 30–39 millimetres, comparatively short at about half the head-and-body length, and the hind foot 10–13 millimetres. (German Wikipedia, general species account)
The back fur is brown-grey and somewhat lighter than in comparable species, the belly is whitish-grey and sharply separated from the back, and the tail is uniformly dark brown. The skull is 18–20 millimetres long. It occurs in central to northeast Asia, from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to Siberia, Russia and Mongolia, and in northwest China. (German Wikipedia, general species account)
Description: Wildlife of Mongolia guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)