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Mexican Shrew
Megasorex gigas (C. H. Merriam, 1897)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Eulipotyphla - insectivores »  family Soricidae - shrews »  genus Megasorex

Other names

= Giant Mexican Shrew
= Merriam's Desert Shrew
= Mexican Giant Shrew

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [41454]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Megasorex gigas (Merriam, 1897)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1004207]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Megasorex gigas (C. H. Merriam, 1897)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Megasorex gigas Merriam, 1897]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Megasorex gigas (Merriam, 1897)]

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