Species: Sorex preblei
Preble's Shrew
Species
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Soricomorpha
Family
Soricidae
Genus
Sorex
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
musaraigne de Preble
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Other Mammals
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Soricomorpha - Soricidae - Sorex - species.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A shrew.
Migration
true - false - false
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Probably resembles other shrews, feeding primarily on insects and other small invertebrates (worms, molluscs, centipedes, etc.).
Length
10
Weight
3
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-11-01
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-01
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
G - 200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles) - G - Western North America, from the Columbia Plateau to the northern Great Plains (Junge and Hoffman 1981, Cornely et al. 1992, Long and Hoffman 1992). Recorded occurrences include northeastern California, northwestern and northeastern Nevada (Ports and George 1990), central and eastern Oregon, southeastern Washington, southcentral British Columbia (D. Nagorsen, pers. comm.), west-central Idaho, Montana (east to the North Dakota border), northwestern and southwestern Wyoming, west-central Colorado (Long and Hoffman 1992), and the south shore of the Great Salt Lake; no records for Snake River Plain of southern Idaho or from the bulk of the Great Basin in Nevada or Utah south of the 40th meridian. Elevations of about 1280-2550 m.
Global Range Code
G
Global Range Description
200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles)

