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Sorex monticolus (montane shrew; Dusky Shrew)

Wikipedia Abstract

The montane shrew (Sorex monticolus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae commonly known as the dusky shrew. Monticolus is derived from the Latin root word mons meaning mountain. It is found in Alaska, western Canada, the western United States the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico. Habitat Montane shrews occupy vast niches of moist grassy areas such as meadows and river banks as well as habitats of taiga forests with a large amount of ground litter used for coverage with acidic soils as well as boreal and temperate rain forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Sorex monticolus

Infraspecies

Sorex monticolus alascensis
Sorex monticolus calvertensis
Sorex monticolus elassodon
Sorex monticolus insularis
Sorex monticolus isolatus
Sorex monticolus longicaudus
Sorex monticolus malitiosus
Sorex monticolus monticolus (Dusky shrew)
Sorex monticolus obscurus (Dusky shrew)
Sorex monticolus parvidens
Sorex monticolus prevostensis
Sorex monticolus setosus
Sorex monticolus shumaginensis
Sorex monticolus soperi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.81
EDGE Score: 2.06
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  70 %
Diet - Scavenger [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Gestation [3]  20 days
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Weaning [1]  21 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Predators

Accipiter striatus (Sharp-shinned Hawk)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Corrodopsylla curvata obtusata[5]
Mesocestoides lineatus[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Gibson, 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