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Taxon: Family Soricidae Fischer, 1814 (mammal)
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Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
Count: [*] 21o;132f;1061g;4316s; ‡1f;5g;38s
   Order Insectivora Bowdich, 1821 - insectivores see Superorder Insectivora Bowdich, 1821
  Count: [*] 6f;60g;365s
     Family Soricidae Fischer, 1814 - shrews
    Count: [*] 21g;272s
       01 Genus Sorex Linnaeus, 1758 - long-tailed shrews
      Count: [*] 61s
       02 Genus Soriculus Blyth, 1854 - Asiatic shrews
      Count: [*] 10s
       03 Genus Neomys Kaup, 1829 - Old World water shrews
      Count: [*] 3s
       04 Genus Blarina Gray, 1838 - short-tailed shrews
      Count: [*] 3s
       05 Genus Blarinella Thomas, 1911 - Asiatic short-tailed shrew
      Count: [*] 1s
       06 Genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 - small-eared shrews
      Count: [*] 12s
       07 Genus Notiosorex Baird, 1877 - gray shrews
      Count: [*] 1s
       08 Genus Megasorex Hibbard, 1950 - giant Mexican shrew
      Count: [*] 1s
       09 Genus Crocidura Wagler, 1832 - white-toothed shrews
      Count: [*] 133s
       10 Genus Suncus Ehrenberg, 1832 - musk shrews
      Count: [*] 14s
       11 Genus Feroculus Kelaart, 1852 - Kelaart's long-clawed shrew
      Count: [*] 1s
       12 Genus Solisorex Thomas, 1924 - Pearson's long-clawed shrew
      Count: [*] 1s
       13 Genus Paracrocidura Heim de Balsac, 1956
      Count: [*] 3s
       14 Genus Sylvisorex Thomas, 1904 - forest musk shrews
      Count: [*] 8s
       15 Genus Ruwenzorisorex Hutterer, 1986
      Count: [*] 1s
       16 Genus Myosorex Gray, 1838 - mouse shrews
      Count: [*] 11s
       17 Genus Diplomesodon Brandt, 1852 - piebald shrew, Turkestan desert shrew
      Count: [*] 1s
       18 Genus Anourosorex Milne-Edwards, 1870 - mole shrew, Sichuan burrowing shrew
      Count: [*] 1s
       19 Genus Chimarrogale Anderson, 1877 - Asiatic water shrews
      Count: [*] 4s
       20 Genus Nectogale Milne-Edwards, 1870 - web-footed water shrew
      Count: [*] 1s
       21 Genus Scutisorex Thomas, 1913 - armored shrew
      Count: [*] 1s

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