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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Insectivora — theshrews .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Crocidura tenuis (Soricidae), possibly introduced by man, and the Flores giant rat (Papagomys armandvillei) are considered vulnerable.
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Structure of a shrew community in the Central African Republic based on the analysis of carnivore scats, with the description of a new sylvisorex (Mammmalia; Soricidae).
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Before I refer to his notes I may state that this animal is a sort of link between the _Soricidae_ and the
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Head and skull as in _Soricidae_, but with palmated feet and compressed tail, as in _Myogalidae_.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Regular Expressions Cookbook is a musk shrew (genus Crocidura, family Soricidae).
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