white-toothed shrews
crocidurinae latin

It is the most common of the white-toothed shrews.

The greater white-toothed shrews are classified as semi-social mammals.

The greater white-toothed shrews tend to build their nest under stones, logs, and in abandoned burrows.

In order to avoid predation, the greater white-toothed shrews can be found undercover of vegetation or leaf litter when active.

(Another vernacular term is African white-toothed shrews, though this perpetuates the same confusion.)

The white-toothed shrews or Crocidurinae are one of three subfamilies of the shrew family Soricidae.

As such, they form one of three main types of shrew, the other two being the red-toothed shrews and the white-toothed shrews.

Genus Crocidura (white-toothed shrews)

Members of the genus are commonly called white-toothed shrews or musk shrews, although both also apply to all of the species in the subfamily.

Subfamily Crocidurinae: (white-toothed shrews)

Another remarkable habit of this shrew (shared with the white-toothed shrews of Europe) is that it forms a "caravan" with its young, that is, the young line up behind the mother and follow it while she walks.

The red-toothed shrews of the subfamily Soricinae are one of three living subfamilies of shrews, along with Crocidurinae (white-toothed shrews) and Myosoricinae (African white-toothed shrews).

They are the only one of the three to be found exclusively south of the Sahara Desert, and accordingly they have been described in English as the African shrews, but there are also many white-toothed shrews in Africa and accordingly this term is more generally used for shrews from Africa in general.

It is debated whether four or five ancient subfamilies occurred, but only two are left today: Soricinae and Crocidurinae.

African Soricomorpha include the Myosoricinae and Crocidurinae subfamilies.

The genus Crocidura is one of nine genera of the shrew subfamily Crocidurinae.

The white-toothed shrews or Crocidurinae are one of three subfamilies of the shrew family Soricidae.

Subfamily Crocidurinae: (white-toothed shrews)

The red-toothed shrews of the subfamily Soricinae are one of three living subfamilies of shrews, along with Crocidurinae (white-toothed shrews) and Myosoricinae (African white-toothed shrews).