Black Shrew | Animalz

Black ShrewThis is a Bornean shrew. The Mount Kinabalu holotype has a uniformly blackish-brown back and a slightly paler underside and was collected in montane forest.What does it look like?The HMW holotype account describes a uniformly blackish-brown back and only slightly paler underparts. Longer tail hairs occur only on the basal 1 cm and are dark, not pale.How does it live?This is a Bornean shrew. The Mount Kinabalu holotype has a uniformly blackish-brown back and a slightly paler underside and was collected in montane forest.The holotype was collected in montane forest on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, at about 1,676 m. This is a record for one specimen.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.