Sorex mirabilis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	EULIPOTYPHLA	SORICIDAE

Scientific Name:

Sorex mirabilis

Species Authority:

Ognev, 1937

Common Name/s:

English

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Ussuri Shrew

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Data Deficient ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Tsytsulina, K.

Evaluator/s:

Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Temple, H. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Justification:
A very rare and poorly known species. It has a large distribution area and may well be Least Concern, but more information is required to confirm this. Data Deficient.

History:

1996

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Lower Risk/least concern (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Distributed in Primorye (Russia), N Korea and NE China (Heilongjiang and Jilin).
Countries:	Native: China; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Russian Federation
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	Very rare species.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A poorly known and rarely encountered species. Apparently its preferred habitat consists of primary broadleafed and coniferous-broadleafed forest. Inhabits valleys and the slopes of hills. The Ussuri Shrew demonstrates a higher level of activity than in other Red-toothed shrews. Apparently this activity is related to the lesser nutritional value of its primary foodstuffs - earthworms, other invertebrates, and flesh of rodents that this shrew consumes. It consumes 214.2% of its body weight daily. Breeding occurs once a year, with young beginning to appear in traps only at the end of August. In favorable years two litters are possible. Young first become sexually maturity in the following warm season.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Habitat and Ecology:

A poorly known and rarely encountered species. Apparently its preferred habitat consists of primary broadleafed and coniferous-broadleafed forest. Inhabits valleys and the slopes of hills. The Ussuri Shrew demonstrates a higher level of activity than in other Red-toothed shrews. Apparently this activity is related to the lesser nutritional value of its primary foodstuffs - earthworms, other invertebrates, and flesh of rodents that this shrew consumes. It consumes 214.2% of its body weight daily. Breeding occurs once a year, with young beginning to appear in traps only at the end of August. In favorable years two litters are possible. Young first become sexually maturity in the following warm season.

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Unknown.

Major Threat(s):

Unknown.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Protected by law, occurs in some protected areas. In China listed as Vulnerable B1ab(i,iii); D2. In Russia considered as Rare species, category III (=Near Threatened).

Conservation Actions:

Protected by law, occurs in some protected areas. In China listed as Vulnerable B1ab(i,iii); D2. In Russia considered as Rare species, category III (=Near Threatened).

Citation:	Tsytsulina, K. 2008. Sorex mirabilis. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 December 2008.
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