Eurasian least shrew
The Eurasian least shrew (Sorex minutissimus), also called the lesser pygmy shrew, is the second-smallest mammal by mass after the Etruscan shrew.
Eurasian least shrew | |
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Specimen exhibited in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | Soricidae |
Genus: | Sorex |
Species: | S. minutissimus |
Binomial name | |
Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780 | |
Eurasian least shrew range |
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