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Sorex palustris (water shrew; American Water Shrew; northern water shrew)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The American water shrew (Sorex palustris) or northern water shrew, is found in the nearctic faunal region located throughout the mountain ranges of northern United States and in Canada and Alaska.
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Infraspecies

Sorex palustris albibarbis
Sorex palustris brooksi
Sorex palustris gloveralleni
Sorex palustris hydrobadistes
Sorex palustris labradorensis
Sorex palustris navigator
Sorex palustris palustris
Sorex palustris punctulatus
Sorex palustris turneri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.78
EDGE Score: 2.17
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Attributes

Gestation [4]  23 days
Litter Size [4]  5
Litters / Year [4]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  2 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [5]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  13.9 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  90 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Luxilus cornutus (Common shiner)[2]

Predators

Buteo platypterus (Broad-winged Hawk)[6]
Lampropeltis zonata (California Mountain Kingsnake)[7]
Nerodia sipedon (Northern Water Snake)[2]
Strix varia (Barred Owl)[6]
Thamnophis ordinoides (Northwestern Garter Snake)[2]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Sorex palustris, John T. Beneski, Jr. and Derek W. Stinson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 296, pp. 1-6 (1987)
♦ 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
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Feeding Ecology of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae), Harry W. Greene and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Copeia, 2003(2), pp. 308–314
♦ 8International Flea Database
♦ 9Gibson, 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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