| Eurasian least shrew[1] | |
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| Specimen exhibited in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | Sorex |
| Species: | S. minutissimus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sorex minutissimus Zimmermann, 1780
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| Eurasian least shrew range | |
The Eurasian least shrew (Sorex minutissimus), also called the lesser pygmy shrew, is the second-smallest mammal by mass after the Etruscan shrew.
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- ^ Henttonen, H.; Sheftel, B.; Stubbe, M.; Samiya, R.; Ariunbold, J.; Buuveibaatar, V.; Dorjderem, S.; Monkhzul, Ts.; Otgonbaatar, M. & Tsogbadrakh, M. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Sorex minutissimus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T29666A115171049. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T29666A22316786.en.