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Christmas Island Shrew

Crocidura trichura

Classification

Family
Soricidae

The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), also known as the Christmas Island musk-shrew, is an extinct species of shrew from Christmas Island. It was variously placed as subspecies of the Asian gray shrew (Crocidura attenuata) or the Southeast Asian shrew (Crocidura fuliginosa), but morphological differences and the great distances between the distribution of these species indicate that the Christmas Island shrew was a distinct species. Description The Christmas Island shrew, like other members of the genus Crocidura, is a small short-legged mammal with a distinct pointed muzzle.

Distribution

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