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Musk Shrews
Crocidura
The genus Crocidura is one of nine genera of the shrew subfamily Crocidurinae. Members of the genus are commonly called white-toothed shrews or musk shrews, although both also apply to all of the species in the subfamily. With over 180 species, Crocidura contains the most species of any mammal genus.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 220 known species
Greater White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura russula
Bicoloured Shrew
speciesCrocidura leucodon
South European White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura fimbriata
Lesser White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura suaveolens
Güldenstädt's shrew
speciesCrocidura gueldenstaedtii
Asian Gray Shrew
speciesCrocidura attenuata
Asian Lesser White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura shantungensis
Reddish-gray Musk Shrew
speciesCrocidura cyanea
Ussuri Shrew
speciesCrocidura lasiura
Taiwanese Gray Shrew
speciesCrocidura tanakae
North African White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura pachyura
Sicilian Shrew
speciesCrocidura sicula
Lesser Red White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura hirta
Greater Red Musk Shrew
speciesCrocidura flavescens
Chinese White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura rapax
Dsinezumi Shrew
speciesCrocidura dsinezumi
Swamp Musk Shrew
speciesCrocidura mariquensis
Büttikofer's Shrew
speciesCrocidura buettikoferi
Southeast Asian Shrew
speciesCrocidura fuliginosa
African Giant Shrew
speciesCrocidura olivieri
Caspian Shrew
speciesCrocidura caspica
Bicolored Musk Shrew
speciesCrocidura fuscomurina
Indochinese Shrew
speciesCrocidura indochinensis
Lesser Ryukyu Shrew
speciesCrocidura watasei
obscure white-toothed shrew
speciesCrocidura obscurior
Canarian Shrew
speciesCrocidura canariensis
Horsfield's Shrew
speciesCrocidura horsfieldii
Hildegarde's Shrew
speciesCrocidura hildegardeae
mouse-tailed shrew
speciesCrocidura muricauda
Sunda Shrew
speciesCrocidura monticola
Anhui White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura anhuiensis
Large White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura dracula
Huangshan White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura huangshanensis
Pale Gray Shrew
speciesCrocidura pergrisea
Luzon Shrew
speciesCrocidura grayi
Malayan Shrew
speciesCrocidura malayana
greater gray-brown musk shrew
speciesCrocidura luna
Elongated Shrew
speciesCrocidura elongata
Siberian Shrew
speciesCrocidura sibirica
Saharan Shrew
speciesCrocidura tarfayensis
Mauritanian Shrew
speciesCrocidura lusitania
São Tomé Shrew
speciesCrocidura thomensis
Jouvenet's Shrew
speciesCrocidura jouvenetae
Large-headed Shrew
speciesCrocidura grandiceps
Cretan Shrew
speciesCrocidura zimmermanni
Mindoro Shrew
speciesCrocidura mindorus
Andaman Spiny Shrew
speciesCrocidura hispida
Lesser Gray-brown Musk Shrew
speciesCrocidura silacea
Palawan Shrew
speciesCrocidura palawanensis
Savanna Path Shrew
speciesCrocidura viaria
Uganda large-toothed shrew
speciesCrocidura mutesae
Balete's White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura baletei
Ke Go white-toothed shrew
speciesCrocidura kegoensis
Oriental Shrew
speciesCrocidura orientalis
Butiaba naked-tailed shrew
speciesCrocidura littoralis
Nicobar Shrew
speciesCrocidura nicobarica
African Dusky Shrew
speciesCrocidura caliginea
Long-tailed Musk Shrew
speciesCrocidura dolichura
dark shrew
speciesCrocidura maurisca
Nimba Giant White-toothed Shrew
speciesCrocidura nimbasilvanus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 46557.