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Sonnerat’s Shrew
December 9 , 2025
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- On 1 October 2022, wildlife researchers photographed a dead shrew near Ooty Lake in Udhagamandalam.
- Sonnerat’s shrew (Diplomesodon sonnerati) was first described in 1813 near Puducherry by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat.
- No physical specimen of this species has ever been collected since its original description.
- The photographed shrew showed clear morphological differences from other local species, including the Asian highland shrew, Asian house shrew, Indian highland shrew, and Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew.
- Experts confirmed that the fur pattern matched Pierre Sonnerat’s original description, but the rediscovery cannot be confirmed because the specimen was not collected.
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