Common Name
Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew
Order
Eulipotyphla
Family
Soricidae
Species Name
Blarina hylophaga
Status
Least concern
States
Arkansas
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Distribution
Southern Nebraska and southwestern Iowa south to southern Texas; east to Missouri and northwestern Arkansas; eastern Oklahoma and most of Kansas; extending into northern Louisiana.
Notes
Difficult to tell from B. Carolinensis except by karyotype. Slightly venomous. Smaller than B. brevicauda. Active day and night.