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Tundra Shrew

Educational resources on Tundra Shrew

Tundra Shrew or Sorex tundrensis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Tundra Shrew

Academic web links for the Tundra Shrew.


North American Mammals: Sorex tundrensis
Many shrews have such uniformly grayish coats that separate species cannot easily be distinguished, but both the summer and winter coats of the Tundra Shrew are highly distinctive.
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=334

North American Mammals: Search Results
Sorex tundrensis (Tundra Shrew) Sorex ugyunak (Barren Ground Shrew) Sorex vagrans (Vagrant Shrew) Family: Talpidae (Moles)
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_menu.cfm?order=6

North American Mammals: Search Results
Sorex tundrensis (Tundra Shrew) Sorex ugyunak (Barren Ground Shrew) Sorex vagrans (Vagrant Shrew)
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_menu.cfm?family=34

ADW: Sorex tundrensis: Information
Tundra Shrew. Pp. 44-45 in D.E. Wilson, S. Ruff, eds. The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sorex_tundrensis.html

North American Mammals: Sorex ugyunak
The fur on its back forms a well-defined brown stripe, and its sides and undersides are pale, a color pattern similar to the much larger Tundra Shrew.
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=335

ADW: Sorex: Classification
... Sorex tundrensis (tundra shrew)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sorex.html

North American Mammals: Sorex tundrensis
Sorex tundrensis (Tundra Shrew) Credit: painting by Nancy Halliday from Kays and Wilson's Mammals of North
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/full_image.cfm?image_id=1295

Mammal Species of the World - Browse: tundrensis
Tundra Shrew: Type Locality: USA, Alaska, St. Michaels. Distribution: Sakhalin Isl; Siberia, from the Pechora River to Chukotka, south to the Altai Mtns; Mongolia and NE China; Alaska
www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13700605

Alaska Natural Heritage Program - Zoology Mammals
Tundra shrew: G5: S5 : Sorex ugyunak: Barren ground shrew: G5: S5 : Sorex yukonicus: Alaska tiny shrew: GU: S3 : CHIROPTERA: VESPERTILIONIDAE: Eptesicus fuscus
aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/zoology/Zoology_Mammals_track08.htm

Damage Prevention and Control Methods
Sorex palustris Northern water shrew Sorex preblei Preble's shrew Sorex sonomae Fog shrew Sorex tenellus Inyo shrew Sorex trowbridgii Trowbridge's shrew Sorex tundrensis Tundra shrew Sorex
www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wild/pdf/wildlife/SHREWS.PDF







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