Contributor: Molly Curran

Common Name: Nantucket Short-tailed Shrew
Scientific Name: Blarina brevicauda compacta
Informal Taxonomy: Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals- Other Mammals
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Craniata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Blarina
Genus Size: B - Very small genus (2-5 species)

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