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SpeciesSoricomorphaSoricidae
Mammals

🐾Asian house shrew

Suncus murinus (Linnaeus, 1766)

A távol-keleti pézsmacickány (Suncus murinus) az emlősök (Mammalia) osztályának Eulipotyphla rendjébe, ezen belül a cickányfélék (Soricidae) családjába és a fehérfogú cickányok (Crocidurinae) alcsaládjába tartozó faj. Nemének a típusfaja.

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Also called
Musk shrew, House Shrew, Indian Musk Shrew, Musk Shrew
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.05 kg
Body length
0.14 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
3.24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Asian house shrew

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.05 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.05 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.14 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
0.39 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
3.24 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3.2 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
1 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
32 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
30 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 30 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 3
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Asian house shrew yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderSoricomorpha
  5. ›familySoricidae
  6. ›genusSuncus
  7. ›speciesSuncus murinus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. familySoricidae
  3. subfamilyCrocidurinae
  4. genusSuncus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEulipotyphla
  12. familySoricidae
  13. subfamilyCrocidurinae
  14. genusSuncus
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What it eats
insects and other invertebrates89%
carrion11%
In other languages
Asiatische Hausspitzmaus (de), ジャコウネズミ (ja), Ryjówek domowy (pl), หนูผีบ้าน (th), 家鼩 (zh), छछुंदर (hi) … and 17 more languages
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