What is Cinereus shrew?
{{speciesbox | name = Cinereous shrew<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Hutterer | pages = 286}}</ref> | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn|author=NatureServe|year=2008|url= https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41392/0|title=''Sorex cinereus''|access-date=8 February 2010}}</ref> | image = MaskedShrew23.jpg | genus = Sorex | species = cinereus | authority = [[Robert Kerr (writer)|Kerr]], 1792 | range_map = Cinereus Shrew area.png | range_map_caption = Cinereus shrew range }} The '''cinereous shrew''' (''Sorex cinereus'') is a type of [[shrew]]. It is found in [[Alaska]], [[Canada]], and the northern [[United States]]. It is also called the '''masked shrew''' or the '''common shrew'''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Assessment)|first=Francesca Cassola (Global Mammal|date=2016-08-18|title=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Sorex cinereus|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/en|access-date=2020-09-15|website=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species}}</ref> ==Description== It is grey-brown in [[colour]]. It light grey belly and a pointed snout. It has a long tail. Its body is about 9 cm in length including a 4 cm long tail. It weighs about 5 g. They can live up to two years.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yom-Tov|first1=Yoram|last2=Yom-Tov|first2=Jonathan|date=2005|title=Global warming, Bergmann's rule and body size in the masked shrew Sorex cinereus Kerr in Alaska|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00976.x|journal=Journal of Animal Ecology|language=en|volume=74|issue=5|pages=803–808|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00976.x|issn=0021-8790|via=}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==Distribution== It lives in most of northern and southern [[North America]] to the [[Rocky Mountains]] in the [[west]], and to the [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachians]] in the [[east]]. This species was introduced into [[Newfoundland]] in the late 1950s. It can be found in many types of [[habitat]]s like arid [[grassland]]s, places with lots of water, [[woodland]]s, and [[tund