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Sorex cinereus (masked shrew; Cinereus Shrew; common shrew)

Synonyms: Sorex cinereus nigriculus; Sorex franktownensis
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The cinereus shrew or masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) is a small shrew found in Alaska, Canada and the northern United States. This is the most widely distributed shrew in North America, where it is also known as the common shrew.
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Infraspecies

Sorex cinereus acadicus
Sorex cinereus cinereus
Sorex cinereus fontinalis
Sorex cinereus hollisteri
Sorex cinereus lesueurii
Sorex cinereus miscix
Sorex cinereus ohionensis
Sorex cinereus streatori

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.36
EDGE Score: 1.85
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  .28 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  5 months 4 days
Gestation [4]  19 days
Litter Size [4]  6
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years
Nocturnal [5]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Weaning [4]  23 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Myrmica alaskensis (Ant)[6]
Pristiphora erichsonii (larch sawfly)[2]
Scaphinotus angusticollis (Ground Beetle)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Catharus ustulatus (Swainson's Thrush)2
Zonotrichia leucophrys (White-crowned Sparrow)2

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Sorex cinereus, John O. Whitaker, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 743, pp. 1–9 (2004)
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 6Exploring the Denali Food Web, ParkWise, National Park Service
♦ 7DIET OF NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN, SCOTT R. SWENGEL AND ANN B. SWENGEL, The Condor 94:707-711 (1992)
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9International Flea Database
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0