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鼩鼱科
鼩鼱科
  Shrew species of insectivore Division soricidea is up, the most widely distributed of a subject, with more than half of insectivore species. Branch members are mostly shrew mice beak shape, which is a lot of small insectivorous mammal of the common form. Division into shrew and the shrew Crocidura attenuata subfamily subfamily soricinae crocidurinae. Toothed shrew shrew subfamily subfamily known as the red, mainly distributed in northern Eurasia and North America; musk shrews, also known as white-toothed shrew subfamily subfamily, mainly in Africa and southern Asia, especially in many species, of which only The musk shrew is crocidura have more than 150 species. Subfamily musk shrew species was undoubtedly the most famous small foul shrew suncus etruscus, small smelly shrew weighs only 2 grams of the two is the smallest extant mammals, size small, but agile and a toxin-containing saliva can capture a larger size than their prey. Subfamily musk shrew is the most peculiar armored shrew scutisorex somereni, reinforced on the bone structure, it is said that mice can support large animals and even a person's weight. Members of two subfamilies are mostly small insect-eating animals the way students, but each has a semi-aquatic members of the subfamily. Branch members shrew fast metabolism, heart rate per minute or even more than 1000 times, and even in the cold northern parts of the members do not hibernate in winter, great appetite, a few hours without eating may starve to death.
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  1. lat.:  soricidae
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Soriculus
Classification details
ExpandCrocidurinaeExpandsoricinaechimmarogale himalayicacrocidura suaveolens