Eurasian Water Shrew

Eurasian Water Shrew^[1]

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Soricomorpha
Family:	Soricidae
Genus:	Neomys
Species:	N. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Least Concern ( LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands The order Soricomorpha ("shrew-form" is a biological Clade within the class of Mammals In previous years it formed a significant The genus Neomys is a group of three water shrews from Eurasia. fodiens

Binomial name

Neomys fodiens
(Pennant, 1771)

The Eurasian Water Shrew, known in British English as the Water Shrew, is a relatively large shrew, up to 100 mm in length, with a tail up to three-quarters as long again. Thomas Pennant ( 14 June OS 1726 - 16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist and Antiquary. British English or UK English ( BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the It has short dark fur, often with a few white tufts, and a few stiff hairs around the feet and tail which act as a keel in the water. In boats and ships keel can refer to either of two parts a structural element or a hydrodynamic element Its fur traps bubbles of air in the water which greatly aids its buoyancy, but requires it to anchor itself if it wishes to remain underwater for more than the briefest of dives.

The shrew has venomous saliva, making it one of the few venomous mammals, although it is not able to puncture the skin of large mammals such as humans. This article is about the class of Biotoxins For other uses see Venom (disambiguation and Venomous (disambiguation. For the band see Saliva (band; for the village in Azerbaijan see Səliva. Venomous mammals are animals of the class Mammalia that produce Venom, which they use to kill or disable prey or to defend themselves from predators Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus Highly territorial, it lives a solitary life and is found throughout northern Eurasia, from Great Britain to North Korea. In Ethology, Sociobiology and Behavioral ecology, the term territory refers to any sociographical area that an Animal of a particular Species For the superstate in George Orwell 's novel see Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia,

References

^ Hutterer, Rainer (2005-11-16). Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published in Wilson, D. E. , and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 279. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
^ Insectivore Specialist Group (1996). Neomys fodiens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 5 May 2006.

External links

ARKive on the Water shrew