Blarina

American short-tailed shrews
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
Southern short-tailed shrew (Blarina carolinensis)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Tribe: Blarinini
Genus: Blarina
Gray, 1838
Type species
Corsira (Blarina) talpoides
Species

The genus Blarina, commonly called short-tailed shrews, is a genus of relatively large shrews with relatively short tails found in North America.

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