Elliot's short-tailed shrew[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | Soricidae |
Genus: | Blarina |
Species: | B. hylophaga
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Binomial name | |
Blarina hylophaga Elliot, 1899
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Elliot's short-tailed shrew range | |
Synonyms | |
Blarina carolinensis hylophaga |
Elliot's short-tailed shrew (Blarina hylophaga) is a small, slate grey, short-tailed species of shrew. Its common name comes from Daniel Giraud Elliot, who first described the species in 1899.