Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Soricidae > Sorex > Sorex nanusSorex nanus (Dwarf Shrew; Rocky Mountain dwarf shrew)The dwarf shrew (Sorex nanus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming in the United States. The type locality is Estes Park (Larimer County), Colorado, USA. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.36 EDGE Score: 1.85 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 2.4 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 70 % | | Diet - Scavenger [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Litter Size [3] | 6 | | Litters / Year [3] | 2 | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 2.362 inches (6 cm) |
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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 Ecoregions 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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