Ornate shrew?
Found in my sink in the morning; was captured into a mason jar and released into my garden after taking the photo.
Ornate shrew?
Found in my sink in the morning; was captured into a mason jar and released into my garden after taking the photo.
Medía aproximadamente 6cm
Possibly roadkill
Organism collected
Possibly roadkill
Organism collected
Recovered from herp pit trap at Cabrillo National Monument. Fed on mealworm at time of release.
Phone photo (poor quality). Camargo and Alvarez-Castaneda (2020): describe new species "Notiosorex tataticuli" west of the Colorado River (split from Notiosorex crawfordi) noting it "has a distribution that is allopatric with respect to all remaining species of Notiosorex. It can be differentiated from N. crawfordi only by DNA sequence data".
Saw this dead shrew on a hike.