Talk:Common shrew
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Wrong species
[edit]Picture shows Crocidura sp., diagnostic among else are the big ears protruding out of the fur and the uniform colour of the body. See picture of Common Shrew here. The picture should be deleted. Yours, --Accipiter2 (talk) 21:19, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Confusing link to redirect
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The redirect on Soricidae in the infobox links to Shrew. This is confusing, as it does not link to a (classification family) Soricidae article, but instead to an unrelated article. Regards - Heptanitrocubane (talk) 17:31, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
- Heptanitrocubane, I don't see the problem. The shrew article seems to be about the family Soricidae, using a more common name for the family as page title. How is that unrelated? Is there some other article the redirect should point to? Huon (talk) 19:48, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello Huon. Sorry, I see now - I thought Soricidae was a subclass. Thanks - Heptanitrocubane (talk) 19:57, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
Venom?
[edit]The article says they are venomous, but there is no mention of how they use their venom or what effects it has. TooManyFingers (talk) 19:26, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
A source is about a different species
[edit]The article currently starts with: "The common shrew (Sorex araneus), also known as the Eurasian shrew, is the most common shrew, and one of the most common mammals, throughout Northern Europe, including Great Britain, but excluding Ireland [3]."
This source given for this claim however appears to be describing a different species, the pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus): 3 "Ireland's Pygmy Shrew, one of the world's smallest mammals, under threat from white-toothed invader". BirdWatch Ireland. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2015. AspidoscelisNeomexicanus (talk) 14:45, 19 November 2025 (UTC)