Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew vs Tickclover

Blarinella quadraticauda compared with Desmodium incanum

Key Differences

• Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew is Near Threatened while Tickclover is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew	Tickclover
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Soricidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Blarinella	Desmodium
Species	Blarinella quadraticauda	Desmodium incanum

Conservation Status

Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew

NT — Near Threatened

Tickclover

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew	Tickclover
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Tickclover

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (10 countries), Asia (Japan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (12 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).

Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew

The Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew (Blarinella quadraticauda) is a species in the genus Blarinella. It is currently classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.