DESCRIPTION: The Elegant Water Shrew is a large shrew with a long snout, webbed feet and a unique tail that is fringed by long, white guard hair. It has a slaty grey dorsal pelage and a greyish white venter that is sharply distinct.Flattened head and long, elongated incisors are further indicative.
BEHAVIOUR: They swim upstream foraging for fish and small invertebrates and then float downstream in open water.
DISTRIBUTION: Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
HABITAT: Mountain streams.
Size: 9–12.5 cm,
IUCN Status: Least Concern
BEHAVIOUR: They swim upstream foraging for fish and small invertebrates and then float downstream in open water.
DISTRIBUTION: Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
HABITAT: Mountain streams.
Size: 9–12.5 cm,
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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