Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Soricidae > Suncus > Suncus hoseiSuncus hosei (Hose's shrew; Bornean Pgymy Shrew)The Bornean pygmy shrew (Suncus hosei) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It was named for zoologist Charles Hose. It is endemic to Malaysia particularly northern Borneo, northern Sarawak and northeastern Sabah, but it may be more widespread and it occur in Brunei and northern Kalimantan. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is often listed as Etruscan shrew but they are both different species. The species had been listed as "vulnerable" since 1996 until changed to "Data Deficient" in 2008. The exact threats are unknown but if it is forest dependent, it is threatened by habitat loss for plantations especially palm oil, logging and fires and it is not known from any protected areas. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data. ED Score: 4.54 |
Adult Weight [1] | 2 grams |  | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 80 % | Diet - Scavenger [2] | 10 % | Diet - Vertibrates [2] | 10 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % |  | Female Maturity [1] | 7 months 18 days |  | Gestation [1] | 28 days | Litter Size [1] | 4 | Litters / Year [1] | 3 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 3 years | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 1.968 inches (5 cm) |
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Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan 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 ♦ 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 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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