Jenkins's shrew (''Crocidura jenkinsi'') is a critically endangered species of

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class (biology), class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in Female#Mammalian female, females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a ...

in the family Soricidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

to South Andaman Island in

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References

* Chakraborty, S., Pradhan, M.S. & Subramanian, K.A. 2002. Jenkins's shrew Mammals of India Endemic fauna of the Andaman Islands Jenkins's shrew Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{whitetoothed-shrew-stub