The Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew (''Crocidura miya'') is a species of

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Description

The head and body length of the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew is , and the tail is long. It is brown above with gray at the base of hairs and is colored slightly lighter below. The tail is brown and longer than the head and body combined.

References

Mammals of Sri Lanka Crocidura Mammals described in 1929 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{whitetoothed-shrew-stub