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Common shrew

Sorex araneus

Order: Soricomorpha

Family: Soricidae

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Sex: male

Age: adult

Skull length: 1.95 cm

Skull width: 0.99 cm

Skull height: 0.64 cm

Skull weight: 0.137 g

Owner: Universalmuseum Joanneum

Inventory number: T35014

Collecting date: 30 July 1991

Collecting area: Breitenfeld am Tannenriegel, Austria
GPS:46°51' 15°38'

Uploaded: 14 July 2019

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