Olympic Shrew

Olympic Shrew
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Soricomorpha
Family:	Soricidae
Genus:	Sorex
Species:	S. rohweri
Binomial name
Sorex rohweri Rausch, Feagin, & Rausch, 2007
Olympic Shrew range

Olympic Shrew (Sorex rohweri) is a rare species of shrew that lives in only 13 spots in northwest Washington State and, a recent discovery, in Burns Bog, located in Delta, BC.

Not much is known about this species. It was only described in 2007 and is often mistaken for the Masked Shrew, Sorex cinereus. Recent reexaminations of museum specimens show the species occurs in British Columbia in the Fraser Valley south of the Fraser River, east to Chilliwack Lake (Nagorsen and Panter, 2009).

Survival

Its survival in Canada is threatened by the South Fraser Perimeter Road, part 2 of the Gateway Program

References

• Rausch, R. L., J. E. Feagin, and V. R. Rausch. 2007. Sorex rohweri sp. nov. (Mammalia, Soricidae) from northwestern North America. Mammalian Biology, 72 (2):93-105.
• South Fraser Perimeter Road Description

Nagorsen, David and N. Panter. 2009. Identification and Status of the Olympic Shrew (Sorex rohweri) in British Columbia. Northwest Naturalist 90:117–129.

• Surrey Now article