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 SORICIDAE Least Siberian Shrew |
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Body length 4.5-4.9cm. Tail length 2.7-3.1cm. Weight 1.5-1.8g. This is one of the smallest mammals in the world. They live in Hokkaido, northern Island in Japan. |
 SORICIDAE Slender Shrew |
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Body length 4.9-5.8cm. Tail length 4.0-4.6cm. Weight 1.5-5.0g. They live in Hokkaido. |
 SORICIDAE "Azumi" Shrew |
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Body length 4.6-6.1cm. Tail length 4.7-5.2cm. Weight 2.6-5.6g. This species are indigenous to Japan. They live in mountain. |
 SORICIDAE Shrewmouse |
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Body length 4.8-7.8cm. Tail length 3.9-5.5cm. Weight 3.0-13.5g. They live in Hokkaido and Honsyu, shikoku. |
 SORICIDAE "Sado" Shrew |
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Body length 5.9-7.8cm. Tail length 4.0-4.9cm. Weight 4.7-9.1g. They live in Sado Island only. |
 SORICIDAE Long-clawed Shrew |
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Body length 5.4-9.7cm. Tail length 4.0-5.3cm. Weight 6.0-19.3g. They live in Hokkaido. This is biggest species in Shrewmouse family. |
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Least Siberian Shrew Slender Shrew "Azumi" Shrew Shrewmouse/"Sado" Shrew Long-clawed Shrew |
 SORICIDAE Himalayan Water Shrew |
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Body length 12cm. Tail length 10cm. They live in the mountain stream, and catch fish, and eats. The coarse white hair grows in the through of the finger of the limbs and the bottom side of the tail, and plays the part to scratch water. |
 SORICIDAE Lesser White-toothed Shrew |
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Body length 6.0-6.9cm. Tail length 4.0-4.2cm。 In Japan, they live in only Tsushima Is. |
 SORICIDAE Long-tailed White-toothed Shrew |
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Body length 5.7-7.6cm. Tail length 3.7-5.3cm。 This Shrew live in Amami-Okinawa Is. |
 SORICIDAE Japanese White-toothed Shrew |
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Body length 6.1-8.4cm. Tail length 3.9-6.0cm. This Shrew has the secretory gland which secretes the bad smell in the ribs. Because of that, a fox dislikes it, and doesn't eat. |
 SORICIDAE Orii's White-toothed Shrew |
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Body length 7.8-9.0cm. Tail length 5.1cm。 The largest sp. in White-toothed Shrews. They live in only Amami and Tokunoshima Is. |
   SORICIDAE House Musk Shrew |
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Body length 11.6-15.7cm. Tail length 6.1-7.7cm. This Shrew lives in the southern islands of Japan. When they move, a child bites the tail of mother, and the next child bites the tail of last child, and they are connected, and walks. |
 TALPIDAE Lesser Japanese Shrew Mole |
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Body length 7-8cm. Tail length 3.2-4.4cm. They lives in mountain. They are the companies of the primitive mole. It is inhabiting only Japan. |
 TALPIDAE Greater Japanese Shrew Mole |
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Body length 8.9-10.4cm. Tail length 2.7-3.8cm. Weight 10-15g. This is near to mole. But, digging isn't well as much as a mole. It is inhabiting only Japan. |
 TALPIDAE Japanese Mountain Mole |
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Body length 8.0-10.7cm. Tail length 2.0-2.6cm. It is a little mole to live in the mountainous district. |
 TALPIDAE Senkaku Mole |
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Body length 13.0cm. Tail length 1.2cm。 Only this only one mole was caught in the SENKAKU Islands. |
 TALPIDAE Lesser Japanese Mole Body length 12.1-15.9cm. Tail length 1.4-2.2cm. 
 TALPIDAE Sado Mole Body length 15.3-18.2cm. Tail length 1.9-3.0cm。 
 TALPIDAE Large Japanese Mole Body length 12.5-18.5cm. Tail length 1.5-2.7cm. |
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Lesser and Large Japanese Mole are two kinds of general moles to live in Japan. Sado Mole live in only SADO Island. |