Baby’s Tears vs Chinese Shrew

Lindernia rotundifolia compared with Sorex sinalis

Key Differences

• Baby’s Tears is Least Concern while Chinese Shrew is Data Deficient.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Baby’s Tears	Chinese Shrew
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lamiales (Lamiales)	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)
Family	Linderniaceae	Soricidae
Genus	Lindernia	Sorex
Species	Lindernia rotundifolia	Sorex sinalis

Conservation Status

Baby’s Tears

LC — Least Concern

Chinese Shrew

DD — Data Deficient

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Baby’s Tears	Chinese Shrew
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Baby’s Tears

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Brazil, Colombia, Mauritius, Mexico, and Taiwan.

Chinese Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Baby’s Tears

The Baby’s Tears (Lindernia rotundifolia) is a species in the genus Lindernia. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Chinese Shrew

The Chinese Shrew (Sorex sinalis) is a species in the genus Sorex. It is currently classified as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.