The Zoochat Photographic Guide to the Eulipotyphla

Crocidura


Asian Gray White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura attenuata)

The range of this species extends throughout the Himalayas from north-central India and adjacent Nepal into northern Indochina, and southern and central China.

Monotypic.

Photo by @baboon




Greater White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura russula)

The range of this species extends throughout much of western Europe and northwest Africa, from the northern Netherlands and adjacent northwest Germany in the north, through Belgium, France and the Iberian Peninsula into northern Morocco and Algeria in the south.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. r. russula - photo by @Merintia



C. r. yebalensis

 

The following species are not represented within the Zoochat gallery:

Malayan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura malayana)
Peninsular White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura negligens)
Black-footed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nigripes)
Bornean White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura foetida)
Kinabalu White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura baluensis)
Thick-tailed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura brunnea)
Oriental White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura orientalis)
Banka White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura vosmaeri)
Hutan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura hutanis)
Beccari's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura beccarii)
Sumatran Giant White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lepidura)
Mount Malindang White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura grandis)
Mindanao White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura beata)
Mindoro White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura mindorus)
Panay White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura panayensis)
Negros White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura negrina)
Luzon White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura grayi)
Sibuyan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura ninoyi)
Palawan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura palawanensis)
Javan Long-tailed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura abscondita)
Gathorne's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura gathornei)
Horsfield's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura horsfieldii)
Sinharaja White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura hikmiya)
Sri Lankan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura miya)
Lesser Ryukyu White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura watasei)
Southeast Asian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura fuliginosa)
Large White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura dracula)
Sumatran Long-tailed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura paradoxura)
Dsinezumi White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura dsinezumi)
Chinese White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura rapax)
Ussuri White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lasiura)
Zaitsev’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura zaitsevi)
Indochinese White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura indochinensis)
Hainan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura wuchihensis)
Timor White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura tenuis)
Javan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura maxi)
Javan Ghost White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura umbra)
Sunda White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura monticola)
Neglected White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura neglecta)
Phu Quoc White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura phuquocensis)
Taiwanese Gray White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura tanakae)
Phan Luong White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura phanluongi))
Sokolov White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura sokolovi)
Cranbrook's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura cranbooki)
Hill's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura hilliana)
Voracious White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura vorax)
Sa Pa White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura sapaensis)
Annamite White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura annamitensis)
Vietnamese White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura guy)
Ke Go White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura kegoensis)
Andaman Spiny White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura hispida)
Andaman White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura andamanensis)
Jenkins' White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura jenkinsi)
Nicobar White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nicobarica)
Christmas Island White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura trichura)
Siberian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura sibirica)
Shantung White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura shantungensis)
Gueldenstaedt's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura gueldenstaedtii)
Lesser White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura suaveolens)
Cyrenaica White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura aleksandrisi)
Zarudny's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura zarudnyi)
Greater Ryukyu White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura orii)
Batak White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura batakorum)
Mossy Forest White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura musseri)
Temboan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura rhoditis)
Lesser Black-footed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lea)
Sulawesi Tiny White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura levicula)
Elongated White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura elongata)
North African White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura pachyura)
Serezkaya White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura serezkyensis)
Whitaker's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura whitakeri)
Flower's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura floweri)
Egyptian Pygmy White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura religiosa)
Bicolored White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura leucodon)
Saharan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura tarfayensis)
Arabian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura arabica)
Dhofar White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura dhofarensis)
Negev White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura ramona)
Katinka's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura katinka)
Jackass White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura arispa)
Caspian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura caspica)
Iranian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura susiana)
Pale Gray White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura pergrisea)
Kashmir White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura pullata)
Cretan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni)
Sicilian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura sicula)
Canarian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura canariensis)
West African Pygmy White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura obscurior)
Ivory Coast White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura eburnea)
Moonshine White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura luna)
Greenwood's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura greenwoodi)
Somali Dwarf White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nana)
Bekele's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura afeworkbekelei)
Yalden's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura yaldeni)
Glass's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura glassi)
Bale White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura bottegoides)
Bailey's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura baileyi)
Macmillan's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura macmillani)

 

Lucina's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lucina)
Thalia's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura thalia)
Guramba White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura phaeura)
Harenna White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura harenna)
Bottego's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura bottegi)
Smoky White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura fumosa)
Zaphiro's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura zaphiri)
Ugandan Lowland White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura selina)
MacArthur's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura macarthuri)
Nyiro White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura macowi)
Ultimate White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura ultima)
Rainey's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura raineyi)
East African Highland White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura allex)
Xanthippe's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura xantippe)
Elgon White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura elgonius)
Fischer's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura fischeri)
Peters's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura gracilipes)
Desperate White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura desperata)
Telford's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura telfordi)
Kilimanjaro White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura monax)
Mduma White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura mdumai)
Montane White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura montis)
Newmark's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura newmarki)
Munissi’s White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura munissii)
Tanzanian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura tansaniana)
Usambara White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura usambarae)
Kivu White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura kivuana)
Niobe's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura niobe)
Desert White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura smithii)
Sahelian Tiny White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura pasha)
Roosevelt's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura roosevelti)
Long-footed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura crenata)
Grasse's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura grassei)
Bicolored African White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura fuscomurina)
Flat-headed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura planiceps)
Crosse's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura crossei)
Jouvenet's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura jouvenetae)
Mauritanian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lusitania)
Naked-tailed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura littoralis)
Gracile White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura maurisca)
Reddish-gray White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura cyanea)
Swamp White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura mariquensis)
Lesser Gray-brown White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura silacea)
Dent's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura denti)
Hildegarde's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura hildegardeae)
Mamfe White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura virgata)
Bates's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura batesi)
São Tomé White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura thomensis)
Fingui White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura fingui)
Fraser's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura poensis)
Nigerian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nigeriae)
Hun White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura attila)
Fox's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura foxi)
Buettikofer's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura buettikoferi)
Therese's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura theresae)
Large-headed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura grandiceps)
Wimmer's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura wimmeri)
African Black White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nigrofusca)
Savanna Dwarf White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nanilla)
Nimba White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nimbae)
Nimba Giant White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nimbasilvanus)
Doucet's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura douceti)
West African White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura muricauda)
Lamotte's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lamottei)
Greater Red White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura flavescens)
Lesser Red White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura hirta)
Heather White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura erica)
Blackish White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura nigricans)
Goliath White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura goliath)
Somali White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura somalica)
African Giant White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura olivieri)
Savanna Path White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura viaria)
Savanna White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura fulvastra)
Ugandan White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura mutesae)
Small-footed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura parvipes)
Cinderella White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura cinderella)
Voi White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura voi)
Yankari White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura yankariensis)
Kahuzi White-toothed Swamp Shrew (Crocidura stenocephala)
Tarella White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura tarella)
Jackson's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura jacksoni)
Kivu Long-Haired White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lanosa)
Dramatic White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura ludia)
Long-tailed White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura dolichura)
Savanna Swamp White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura longipes)
Cameroonian White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura picea)
Manenguba White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura manengubae)
Eisentraut's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura eisentrauti)
Upemba White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura zimmeri)
Misotshi-Kabogo White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura lwiroensis)
African Dusky White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura caliginea)
Congo White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura congobelgica)
Latona's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura latona)
Polia's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura polia)
Ansell's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura ansellorum)
Pitman's White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura pitmani)
Makwassie Musk White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura maquassiensis)
Turbo White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura turba)
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Formatting on the above posts will follow anon, but I have to say I am bloody pleased to have got through THAT genus

 

Surdisorex


The following species are not represented within the Zoochat gallery:

Aberdare Mole Shrew (Surdisorex norae)
Mount Kenya Mole Shrew (Surdisorex polulus)
Schlitter's Mole Shrew (Surdisorex schlitteri)
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Congosorex


The following species are not represented within the Zoochat gallery:

Phillips' Congo Shrew (Congosorex phillipsorum)
Greater Congo Shrew (Congosorex polli)
Lesser Congo Shrew (Congosorex verheyni)
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Myosorex


The following species are not represented within the Zoochat gallery:

Meester's Mouse Shrew (Myosorex meesteri)
Dark-footed Mouse Shrew (Myosorex cafer)
Sclater's Mouse Shrew (Myosorex sclateri)
Thin Mouse Shrew (Myosorex tenuis)
South African Mouse Shrew (Myosorex varius)
Long-tailed Mouse Shrew (Myosorex longicaudatus)
Kilimanjaro Mouse Shrew (Myosorex zinki)
Geata Mouse Shrew (Myosorex geata)
Kihaule's Mouse Shrew (Myosorex kihaulei)
Nyika Mouse Shrew (Myosorex gnoskei)
Schaller's Mouse Shrew (Myosorex schalleri)
Kabogo Mouse Shrew (Myosorex kabogoensis)
Babault's Mouse Shrew (Myosorex babaultii)
Montane Mouse Shrew (Myosorex blarina)
Bururi Mouse Shrew (Myosorex bururiensis)
Kahuzi Mouse Shrew (Myosorex jejei)
Eisentraut's Mouse Shrew (Myosorex eisentrauti)
Rumpi Mouse Shrew (Myosorex rumpii)
Oku Mouse Shrew (Myosorex okuensis)
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TALPIDAE


This family contains 18 genera, as follows:


Uropsilinae

Uropsilus - Asian Shrew Moles (7 species)


Talpinae

Scapanulus - Gansu Mole (monotypic)

Parascalops - Hairy-tailed Mole (monotypic)

Scapanus - Coast Mole and allies (4 species)

Scalopus - Eastern Mole (monotypic)

Scaptonyx - Long-tailed Mole (monotypic)

Urotrichus - Japanese Shrew Mole (monotypic)

Dymecodon - True's Shrew Mole (monotypic)

Neurotrichus - American Shrew Mole (monotypic)

Condylura - Star-nosed Mole (monotypic)

Desmana - Russian Desman (monotypic)

Galemys - Pyrenean Desman (monotypic)

Talpa - Eurasian Moles (12 species)

Oreoscaptor - Japanese Mountain Mole (monotypic)

Mogera - Japanese Moles (9 species)

Euroscaptor - Himalayan Mole and allies (9 species)

Parascaptor - White-tailed Mole (monotypic)

Scaptochirus - Short-faced Mole (monotypic)
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Uropsilus


Equivalent-teeth Shrew Mole (Uropsilus aequodonenia)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of south-central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Anderson's Shrew Mole (Uropsilus andersoni)

The range of this species is restricted to Emei Shan and adjacent regions of south-central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Gracile Shrew Mole (Uropsilus gracilis)

The range of this species extends throughout south-central and southwest China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Inquisitive Shrew Mole (Uropsilus investigator)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of southwest China and perhaps immediately-adjacent northeast Myanmar.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Chinese Shrew Mole (Uropsilus soricipes)

The range of this species extends throughout central and southwest China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Snow Mountain Shrew Mole (Uropsilus nivatus)

The range of this species is restricted a small region of southwest China east of the Salween River and north of Dali.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Black-backed Shrew Mole (Uropsilus atronates)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of southwest China south of Dali, and between the Mekong and Salween Rivers.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Scapanulus


Gansu Mole (Scapanulus oweni)

The range of this species extends throughout the montane forests of central China.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.

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Parascalops


Hairy-tailed Mole (Parascalops breweri)

The range of this species extends throughout southeast Canada and into northeast and east-central USA as far south as northwest South Carolina.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.

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Scapanus


Coast Mole (Scapanus orarius)

The range of this species extends from southwest Canada into western USA as far south as northwest California, and as far inland as west-central Idaho.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. o. orarius
S. o. schefferi

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Townsend's Mole (Scapanus townsendii)

The range of this species is restricted to a narrow coastal strip of southwest Canada in the north to northwest California in the south.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. t. townsendii
S. t. olympicus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Broad-footed Mole (Scapanus latimanus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of coastal western USA from southwest Oregon in the north to southwest California in the south, and also into adjacent northwest Baja California.

Five subspecies are recognised:

S. l. latimanus
S. l. insularis
S. l. minisculus
S. l. occultus.
S. l. parvus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.


Mexican Mole (Scapanus anthonyi)

The range of this species is restricted to a small region of central Baja California.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Scalopus


Eastern Mole (Scalopus aquaticus)

The range of this species extends throughout much of eastern North America, from southwest South Dakota in the west to Massachusetts in the east, and south to northeast Mexico in the west and Florida in the east.

Sixteen subspecies are recognised:

S. a. aquaticus - photo by @Giant Eland (taxidermy individual)



S. a. alleni
S. a. anastasae
S. a. aerus
S. a. australis
S. a. bassi
S. a. caryi
S. a. howelli
S. a. inflatus
S. a. machrinoides
S. a. machrinus
S. a. montanus
S. a. nanus
S. a. parvus
S. a. porteri
S. a. texanus

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Scaptonyx


Long-tailed Mole (Scaptonyx fusicauda)

The range of this species extends throughout much of central and south-central China, and possibly south into northern Indochina.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. f. fusicauda
S. f. affinis

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Urotrichus


Japanese Shrew Mole (Urotrichus talpoides)

The range of this species extends throughout central and southern Japan.

Two subspecies are recognised:

U. t. talpoides
U. t. adversus

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Dymecodon


True's Shrew Mole (Dymecodon pilirostris)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout central and southern Japan.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Neurotrichus


American Shrew Mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii)

The range of this species extends throughout a narrow coastal strip of western North America, from southwest British Columbia in the north to west-central California in the south.

Three subspecies are recognised:

N. g. gibbsii
N. g. hyacinthinus
N. h. minor

No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
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Condylura


Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southeast Canada and adjacent regions of northeast and eastern USA, as far south as southeast Georgia.

Two subspecies are recognised:

C. c. cristata
C. c. nigra

Photo by @vogelcommando (taxidermy specimen)


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