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Blarina hylophaga (Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew)

Wikipedia Abstract

Elliot's short-tailed shrew (Blarina hylophaga) is a small, slate grey, short-tailed species of shrew. Its common name comes from Daniel Giraud Elliot, who first described the species in 1899.
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Infraspecies

Blarina hylophaga hylophaga
Blarina hylophaga plumbea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.14
EDGE Score: 2.84
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Diet - Plants [3]  30 %
Diet - Vertibrates [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  84 days
Male Maturity [1]  42 days
Gestation [1]  23 days
Litter Size [1]  7
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.937 inches (10 cm)
Weaning [1]  30 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research   North Carolina, United States
Konza Prairie Biosphere Reserve 8617 Kansas, United States  
Ozark National Scenic Riverways National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway V 54621 Missouri, United States
Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve 37548505 North Carolina, Tennessee, United States  

Predators

Buteo jamaicensis harlani (Harlan's red-tailed hawk)[5]
Felis silvestris (Wildcat)[6]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[7]
Vulpes velox (Swift Fox)[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 5FOOD HABITS OF A HARLAN'S HAWK AND LONG-EARED OWLS IN KANSAS, Ted T. Cable and John S. Bond, Kansas Ornithological BULLETIN, Vol. 42, No. 2, June, 1991, p. 25-27
♦ 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.
♦ 7Blarina hylophaga (Soricomorpha: Soricidae), CODY W. THOMPSON, JERRY R. CHOATE, HUGH H. GENOWAYS, AND ELMER J. FINCK, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(878):94–103 (2011)
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