Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew vs Junça Diforme

Blarina hylophaga compared with Cyperus difformis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew	Junça Diforme
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (plantas)
Phylum	Chordata (cordados)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (mamíferos)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Soricomorpha (Soricomorpha)	Poales (Grasses)
Family	Soricidae	Cyperaceae
Genus	Blarina	Cyperus
Species	Blarina hylophaga	Cyperus difformis

Conservation Status

Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew

LC — Least Concern

Junça Diforme

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

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

Habitat & Geographic Range

Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Junça Diforme

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, among 6 distinct biome types spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic and Palearctic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (9 countries), Asia (10 countries), Europe (9 countries), North America (6 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (5 countries), and South America (6 countries).