Soricidae
Sign in to saveShrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which belong to different families or orders.
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Shrews are tiny, mole-like mammals belonging to the family Soricidae, and they're classified in the order Eulipotyphla. It's important to know that "shrew" is sometimes applied to other unrelated animals—like treeshrews and elephant shrews—so true shrews specifically refer only to members of the Soricidae family.
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Taxonomy · GBIF
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderSoricomorpha
- FamilySoricidae
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- Instance of
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- Parent taxon
- Eulipotyphla
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- Southern short-tailed shrew.jpg
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Shrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which belong to different families or orders.
Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent, as mice are. It is, in fact, a much closer relative of hedgehogs and moles; shrews are related to rodents only in that both belong to the Boreoeutheria magnorder. Shrews have sharp, spike-like teeth, whereas rodents have gnawing front incisor teeth.