Brazilian shrew mouse
Temporal range: Pleistocene – Recent
Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Subfamily: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Akodontini
Genus: Blarinomys
Thomas, 1896
Species:
B. breviceps
Binomial name
Blarinomys breviceps
(Winge, 1888)

The Brazilian shrew mouse (Blarinomys breviceps), also known as the blarinine akodont, is a rodent in the tribe Akodontini from the Atlantic Forest of eastern and southeastern Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Blarinomys.

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