Water Shrew may refer to any of several species of semi-aquatic red-toothed shrews:
- Asiatic water shrews (Chimarrogale spp.)
- Malayan Water Shrew (C. hantu)
- Himalayan Water Shrew (C. himalayica)
- Sunda Water Shrew (C. phaeura)
- Japanese Water Shrew (C. platycephala)
- Chinese Water Shrew (C. styani)
- Sumatran Water Shrew (C. sumatrana)
- Nectogale
- Elegant Water Shrew (N. elegans)
- Neomys
- Mediterranean Water Shrew (N. anomalus)
- Eurasian Water Shrew (N. fodiens)
- Transcaucasian Water Shrew (N. teres)
- Sorex:
- Glacier Bay Water Shrew (S. alaskanus)
- American Water Shrew (S. palustris)
- Pacific Water Shrew or Marsh Shrew (S. bendirii)
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“Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not “Devil’s wine,” but God’s wine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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