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  Palaeos Vertebrates 460.700 Insectivora: Soricidae
Семейство ·Землеройковые - Soricidae; Mammalia- Insectivora, Soricidae - Spitzmäuse (German); Molecular Phylogeny of Short-Tailed Shrews, Blarina (Insectivora...
Note: current belief is that crocidurines represent a Late Miocene African radiation of shrews that later spread to parts of Asia.
(molecular phylogeny and zoogeography of African populations); Mammalia- Insectivora, Soricidae - Spitzmäuse.
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Task Objectives The overall goal is to determine the diversity, biogeography, and evolutionary relationships of the shrews (Family Soricidae).
Evolution of the forefoot skeleton in the small-eared shrews (Mammalia, Soricidae).
Fossil shrews from Honduras: significance for evolution in Cryptotis (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae).
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Nature (Som-Sou)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
They are the tall grasses with succulent stems and are found in the tropical parts of Asia and other warm regions.
Soricidae is a family of mammals belonging to the order Insectivora which includes the shrews and musk-rats.
The Sorraia is a breed of Iberian pony which developed around the Spanish-Portuguese border.
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 Shrews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
The family Soricidae, falling under the order Insectivora, is made up of the smallest mammals, the shrews.
Shrews all share the common characteristics of small size, a long and pointed snout, smaller than ordinary eyes, and short ears.
These small mammals are active year round and provide food for a number of species including weasels, hawks, owls, and rattlesnakes.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/distr/mammals/mammals/shrews.htm   (97 words)

  
 shrew on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
common name for the small, insectivorous mammals of the family Soricidae, related to the moles.
True shrews are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Insectivora, family Soricidae.
Observations on the diet composition of the gray shrew Notiosorex crawfordi (Insectivora), including interactions with large arthropods.
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Woodman, N. New record of the rare emballonurid bat Centronycteris centralis Thomas, 1912 in Costa Rica, with notes on feeding habits.
Woodman, N., C. Cuartas C., and C. Delgado V. The humerus of Cryptotis colombiana and its bearing on the phylogenetic relationships of the species (Soricomorpha: Soricidae).
Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the Cryptotis nigrescens species complex of small-eared shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), with the description of a new species from Colombia.
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 Lund University, Doctoral Dissertation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
Evolutionary relationships among the six extant families, Talpidae (moles), Soricidae (shrews), Erinaceidae (hedgehogs), Tenrecidae (tenrecs), Chryosochloridae (golden moles), and Solenodontidae (solenodons), have remained uncertain based on morphological data.
This work addressed the phylogenetic relationships among the Talpidae, Soricidae, Erinaceidae, and Tenrecidae based on mitochondrial (mt) DNA sequence data.
The discrete gamma model of rate heterogeneity disproportionately increased the long branches at the base of Eutheria relative to those at the top of the tree highlighting the potential for misleading results and the need for more dense taxon sampling near the base of the tree.
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 shrew --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
Any of more than 300 species of small insectivores constituting the family Soricidae.
Shrews have a foul odour caused by scent glands on the flanks as well as other parts of the body.
All are nocturnal and den in cavities and burrows in stream banks; tunnel entrances are underwater.
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Soricidae: Petenyia KORMOS, 1934 and Blarinella THOMAS, 1911.
Soricidae: Mafia REUMER, 1984, Sulimskia REUMER, 1984 and Paenelimnoecus BAUDELOT, 1972. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 33(14): 303-327. ADVANCE \d4NADACHOWSKI A., ZMIEAOWSKI J., RZEBIK-KOWALSKA B., DAUD A. 1990. Mammals from the Near East in Polish collections. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 33(6): 91- 120.
Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, BiaBowie a: 23-92. ADVANCE \d4MAUL L., RZEBIK-KOWALSKA B. 1998. A record of Macroneomys brachygnathus FEJFAR, 1966 (Mammalia, Insectivira, Soricidae) in the early Middle Pleistocene (late Biharian) locality of Voigtstedt (Germany) and the history of the genus Macroneomys.
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