Blarina brevicauda (small mammal)

Mass: 15.1 g based on Martinsen 1969 and Lindsay 1960

Abundance: 0.01 to 19.34% (median 2.66%)

Latitudinal range: 30.3° to 53.8°

Habitats: (16), boreal forest/taiga (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (10), temperate coniferous forest (1), temperate savanna (1), temperate wetland (1)

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Found in 30 samples

Canada: Gogama, Kinmount, Prince Albert Model Forest, Prince Edward Island National Park, Caverne de la Mine (lower infill) (Holocene)

United States: Trelease Woods (autumn 1938, plot UU), Seymour (1939, Plot A), Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Gingercake Creek, North of Madison, Glenn Dale, Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge, MacIntyre Development (forest habitats), Grand Marais, Suffolk, Ardis (Late Pleistocene), Welsh Cave (Late Pleistocene), Ripplemead (Late Pleistocene), Bat Cave (Late Pleistocene), King Leo Pit Cave (Late Pleistocene), Prairie Creek (Zone D) (Late Pleistocene), Robinson Cave (Late Pleistocene), Meyer Cave (Holocene), Polecat Creek (alluvial gravel) (Late Pleistocene), Prairie Creek (Zone C) (Pleistocene - Holocene), Prairie Creek (Zone B) (Holocene), Schulze Cave (layer C1) (Late Pleistocene), New Paris Sinkhole No. 4 (Late Pleistocene), Natural Chimneys (Late Pleistocene), Cumberland Cave (Middle Pleistocene)

Size measurements:
♀ body mass17.5 gN = 1Martinsen 1969
♀ body mass21.5 gN = 1Martinsen 1969
♀ body mass22 gN = 1Martinsen 1969
♀ body mass17 gN = 1Martinsen 1969
♂ body mass16 gN = 1Martinsen 1969
♂ body mass19 gN = 1Martinsen 1969
♂ body mass20 gN = 1Martinsen 1969
body mass14.1 gN = 22Lindsay 1960
hind foot length16.1 mmN = 7Schlitter and Bowles 1967
♀ hind foot length16 mmN = 1Schlitter and Bowles 1967
hind foot length16.3 mmN = 6Schlitter and Bowles 1967
tail length25.6 mmN = 7Schlitter and Bowles 1967
♀ tail length25 mmN = 1Schlitter and Bowles 1967
tail length26.0 mmN = 6Schlitter and Bowles 1967
total body length123.6 mmN = 7Schlitter and Bowles 1967
♀ total body length129 mmN = 1Schlitter and Bowles 1967
total body length125.3 mmN = 6Schlitter and Bowles 1967

See also Blarina, Blarina carolinensis, Blarina sp.