National Museum of Natural Science

This shrew has thick fur with ash gray and brown dorsal pelage. The abdomen is lighter in color, almost ash white. The eyes and ears are very small and the tail is slightly shorter in length than that of the body, without bristles. The tips of its incisors are reddish brown. The Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew is widely distributed in mixed broad-leaved coniferous forests and coniferous forests, as well as alpine tundra, at 1,000 meters or more above sea level in Taiwan. It prefers dark damp places among lush understory vegetation, under the trunks of fallen trees, and in rock crevices beside streams. It feeds on earthworms and various arthropods.

Text/Chen Yan-Jun, Chen Mu-Xuan

Photo/Huang Xiao-Ting

Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew