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long-tailed shrews

genus Sorex

Member of long-tailed shrews (tribe Soricini)
red-toothed shrews (subfamily Soricinae)
shrews (family Soricidae)
moles, shrews, and voles
placental mammals (infraclass Placentalia)
therians (subclass Theria)
mammals (class Mammalia)
animals (kingdom Animalia)

There are no other wild species of this genus in the bay area.
Caution: The key to distinguish these species is not complete.


vagrant shrew
Sorex vagrans

ornate shrew
Sorex ornatus

trowbridge’s shrew
Sorex trowbridgii

fog shrew
Sorex sonomae


4 unobserved taxons

Chris’s observations: none

Taxon info: iNaturalist

Bay Area species: iNaturalist