Physical Description
The Greater white-toothed shrew is distinguished by a careful examination of their unpigmented teeth. Like other "white tootheed-shrews", C. russula lacks the deposition of iron in their enamel at the tips of their teeth This particular species has a greyish or reddish brown upper coat with a yellowish grey coat in the underside The Greater white-toothed shrews are part of the medium sized shrews and weigh around 11 grams to 14 grams The head and body length of C. russula is about 6 to 9 cm and the tail length averages to about 3 to 4.3 cm
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