Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew vs Fimbry

Blarina hylophaga compared with Fimbristylis littoralis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew	Fimbry
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)	Poales (Grasses)
Family	Soricidae	Cyperaceae
Genus	Blarina	Fimbristylis
Species	Blarina hylophaga	Fimbristylis littoralis

Conservation Status

Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew

LC — Least Concern

Fimbry

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew	Fimbry
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Fimbry

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, deserts and xeric shrublands, and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (7 countries), Asia (Brunei, Singapore, Thailand), North America (6 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (4 countries), and South America (4 countries).