Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew

Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Episoriculus
Species: E. fumidus
Binomial name
Episoriculus fumidus
(Thomas, 1913)[2][3]
Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew range
Synonyms

Soriculus fumidus[4][5]

The Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew (Episoriculus fumidus) is a species of shrew in the Nectogalini tribe.[3] It is found only in Taiwan.[6] It prefers dense ground cover in forests and subalpine shrublands in high mountains of central Taiwan.[1]

References

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