Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Soricidae > Sorex > Sorex merriamiSorex merriami (Merriam's Shrew)Synonyms: Sorex merriami leucogenys Merriam's shrew (Sorex merriami) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to the western United States and southern British Columbia in Canada. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 13.93 EDGE Score: 2.7 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 5.9 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 70 % | | Diet - Scavenger [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Litter Size [3] | 6 | | Nocturnal [4] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 2.362 inches (6 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Arizona Mountains forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Blue Mountains forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Colorado Plateau shrublands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Colorado Rockies forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Eastern Cascades forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Great Basin montane forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Great Basin shrub steppe |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Mojave desert |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern short grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Okanagan dry forests |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Palouse grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Snake-Columbia shrub steppe |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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South Central Rockies forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Wasatch and Uinta montane forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Western short grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Wyoming Basin shrub steppe |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area |
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36286 |
Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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Bryce Canyon National Park |
II |
36348 |
Utah, United States |
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Craters of the Moon National Monument |
V |
690996 |
Idaho, United States |
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El Morro National Monument |
V |
960 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument |
V |
528 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Hovenweep National Monument |
V |
770 |
Colorado, Utah, United States |
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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area |
V |
103172 |
Washington, United States |
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Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
228335 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Walnut Canyon National Monument |
V |
3386 |
Arizona, United States |
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Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403 ♦ 2Hamish 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 ♦ 3Nathan 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 ♦ 4Myers, 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♦ 5International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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