American short-tailed shrew

American short-tailed shrew
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American short-tailed shrews¹
Fossil range: Late Pliocene to Recent

Southern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina carolinensis)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Soricomorpha
Family:	Soricidae
Subfamily:	Soricinae
Tribe:	Blarinini
Genus:	Blarina Gray, 1838

Species

The genus Blarina is a group of relatively large shrews with relatively short tails found in North America. They are red-toothed shrews; species in this group have 32 teeth.

They generally have dark fur and thick feet. The saliva of these animals is toxic and is used to subdue prey.²

The list of species is:¹

Northern Short-tailed Shrew (B. brevicauda)
Southern Short-tailed Shrew (B. carolinensis)
Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew (B. hylophaga)
Everglades Short-tailed Shrew (B. peninsulae)

References

^ ^a ^b Hutterer, Rainer (2005-11-16). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 269-270. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
^ Kita M, Okumura Y, Ohdachi SD, Oba Y, Yoshikuni M, Nakamura Y, Kido H, Uemura D. (February 2005). "Purification and characterisation of blarinasin, a new tissue kallikrein-like protease from the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda: comparative studies with blarina toxin". Biological chemistry 386 (2): 177–82. doi:10.1515/BC.2005.022, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15843162&dopt=Abstract.

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