Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Talpidae > Dymecodon > Dymecodon pilirostris

Dymecodon pilirostris (True's Shrew Mole)

Synonyms: Urotrichus pilirostris

Wikipedia Abstract

True's shrew mole (Dymecodon pilirostris) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan (Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu) and is a common species above 1000 meters in grasland, shrubland and forest. It is the only species in the genus Dymecodon. It has sometimes been considered belonging to the genus Urotrichus.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
13
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
40
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 26.82
EDGE Score: 3.33
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  40 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.756 inches (7 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Honshu alpine conifer forests Japan Palearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests  
Nihonkai montane deciduous forests Japan Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests  
Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests Japan Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Azumayama Forest Forest Ecosystem Reserve IV   Fukushima, Japan  
Chubu - Sangaku National Park 430762 Japan      
Mount Hakusan National Park V 219319 Toyama, Japan
Nikko National Park 345999 Japan      
Shiga Highland Biosphere Reserve 32124 Honshu, Japan  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan Yes

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

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
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 4International Flea Database
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