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Japanese Water Shrew

Chimarrogale platycephala

Order
Eulipotyphla
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Chimarrogale
IUCN status
LC (as Chimarrogale platycephalus)
Distribution
Japan
Realm
Palearctic

Other names: Flat-headed Water Shrew

About this species

Japanese Water Shrew (Chimarrogale platycephala) is a semi-aquatic 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 Threatened local population (Japan MOE Red List 2020).

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

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