Long-clawed shrew
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The long-clawed shrew is the largest shrew living in Japan.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Long-clawed shrew
- Scientific name
- Sorex unguiculatus
- Japanese name
- オオアシトガリネズミ
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Eulipotyphla
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Sorex
It is related more closely to moles than to mice and lives in places such as Hokkaido, the Russian Far East and the Korean Peninsula.
It burrows through piles of fallen leaves, and sometimes digs tunnels in the soil with its well-developed front feet.
It lives alone in its own territory and eats at regular intervals, day or night.
How the Long-clawed shrew lives
It eats earthworms, insects, spiders and similar prey.
多摩動物公園Basic data
- Size
- Head and body length: 54–97 mm
- Weight
- 6–19.3 g
- Active
- By day and by night
- Diet
- Earthworms, insects, spiders, and other animals
- Range
- Russian Far East, northeastern China, Korean Peninsula, and Japan
Where the Long-clawed shrew has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オオアシトガリネズミ
- 简体中文
- 库页鼩鼱
- 繁體中文
- 長爪鼩鼱
- 한국어
- 긴발톱첨서
- Deutsch
- Amur-Langkrallen-Spitzmaus
- العربية
- زبابة طويلة المخالب
- Русский
- Когтистая бурозубка
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 多摩動物公園 — オオアシトガリネズミChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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