Gaspé shrew
| Long-tailed shrew | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | Sorex |
| Species: | S. dispar |
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Sorex dispar Batchelder, 1911 |
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| Long-tailed shrew range | |
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Sorex gaspensis (Anthony & Goodwin, 1924)
The long-tailed shrew or rock shrew (Sorex dispar) is a small North American shrew found in Atlantic Canada and the north-eastern United States.
This shrew is slate grey in colour with a pointed snout, a long tail and lighter underparts. It is found on rocky slopes in mountainous areas along the Atlantic coast from Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia to northern Georgia. It eats insects and spiders. Predators include hawks, owls, and snakes.
The Long-Tailed Shrew, or Rock Shrew, is small, slender, black slate-gray in color, with long tails. The average length of the Long-Tailed Shrew, including tail length, is 119.5mm. The head and body length in the species can be 48 to 79mm. The tail length, which averages from 80 to 90 percent of head-body length, ranges from 46 to 67mm. The long-tailed shrew has a hind foot length of 12-15mm, and can have a total body weight of 3.1 to 8.3 grams. The tail is furry with hair that is faintly bicolored. The older in age of the Long-Tailed Shrew, a loss of hair from the tail may be exhibited. The long-tailed shrew has a long slender muzzle with long whiskers that range from 22 to 23mm long. In the summer months the pelage color of the Long-Tailed Shrew is slate gray with the ventral side of the body lighter than the dorsum.
The long-tailed shrew has an unusually limited geographic range. The species can be found in the Appalachian Mountains, Nova Scotia and Southeastern New Brunswick, from Canada southward along the mountains to North Carolina, and small ranges of the species in Tennessee. In New York the Long-Tailed Shrew is found in (the Adirondacks and Catskills) and a small area in Pennsylvania. In Massachusetts, the long-tailed shrew is only found in Berkshire County.
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