The Negev Shrew is a small shrew described from Israel’s central Negev Desert. It has a flattened skull and light silver-gray fur on its back.
It is small, with a flattened skull and light silver-gray fur on its back.
It lives in rocky desert, using dry riverbeds and their shrubby surroundings among gravel plains and rocky hills in the Negev.
Of seven specimens from near Mizpe Ramon, five were trapped in dry riverbeds with shrubs and two near dry riverbeds in dense shrubby vegetation.
Measurements of four specimens gave a head-and-body length of 58–63 mm, a tail length of 42–43 mm and a weight of 4–5 g.
The hairs have slate-grey bases, with silvery-grey tips on the back and silvery-white tips underneath. The tail is weakly bicoloured.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.