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Olympic shrew
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Soricidae
Genus:	Sorex
Species:	S. rohweri
Binomial name
	Sorex rohweri; Rausch, Feagin, & Rausch, 2007
	Olympic shrew range

The Olympic shrew (Sorex rohweri) is a rare species of shrew that lives in only 13 spots in northwest Washington state and, a recent discovery, in Burns Bog, located in Delta, BC.

Not much is known about this species. It was only described in 2007 and is often mistaken for the masked shrew, Sorex cinereus.^[2] Recent reexaminations of museum specimens show the species occurs in British Columbia in the Fraser Valley south of the Fraser River, east to Chilliwack Lake.^[3]

Survival

Its survival in Canada is threatened by the South Fraser Perimeter Road, part 2 of the Gateway Program

References

^ Cassola, F. (2017). "Sorex rohweri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T136282A22317740. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T136282A22317740.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ Rausch, R. L., J. E. Feagin, and V. R. Rausch. 2007. Sorex rohweri sp. nov. (Mammalia, Soricidae) from northwestern North America. Mammalian Biology, 72 (2):93-105.
^ Nagorsen, David and N. Panter. 2009. Identification and Status of the Olympic Shrew (Sorex rohweri) in British Columbia. Northwest Naturalist 90:117–129.