Gaspé Shrew

Taxobox
name = Gaspé ShrewMSW3 Hutterer | pages = 288]
status = LR/lc
status_system = iucn2.3
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Insectivore Specialist Group|year=1996|id=41397|title=Sorex gaspensis|downloaded=12 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Soricomorpha
familia = Soricidae
genus = "Sorex"
species = "S. gaspensis"
binomial = "Sorex gaspensis"
binomial_authority = Anthony & Goodwin, 1924

The Gaspé Shrew ("Sorex gaspensis") is a North American shrew found on the Gaspé peninsula of Quebec, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick. It is closely related to the somewhat larger Long-tailed Shrew ("Sorex dispar") found in the Appalachian Mountains.

It is light grey in colour with a pointed snout and a long tail.

This animal is found in areas with steep rocky slopes near streams.

It eats insects and spiders.

It is thought to breed in the spring and summer.

This species was first described in "A new species of shrew from the Gaspé Peninsula" in no. 109, 1924 of "American Museum Novitates", a publication of the American Museum of Natural History.

References

External links

* [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sorex_gaspensis.html University of Michigan Museum of Zoology]