Subgenus
Otisorex
Sorex vagrans. Photo: (c) Patricia Teague, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The genus Sorex includes many of the common shrews of Eurasia and North America, and contains at least 142 known species and subspecies. Members of this genus, known as long-tailed shrews, are the only members of the tribe Soricini of the subfamily Soricinae (red-toothed shrews). They have 32 teeth.
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