Crocidura
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Crocidura Temporal range: Miocene to Recent |
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| Greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Subfamily: | Crocidurinae |
| Genus: |
Crocidura Wagler, 1832 |
| Type species | |
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Crocidura leucodon (Hermann, 1780) |
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| Species | |
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The genus Crocidura is one of nine genera of the shrew subfamily Crocidurinae. Members of the genus are commonly called white-toothed shrews or musk shrews, although both also apply to all of the species in the subfamily. With over 180 species, Crocidura contains the most species of any mammal genus.
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The name Crocidura means "woolly tail", due the the fact that the tail of Crocidura members are covered in short hairs interspersed with longer ones.
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