[Taxacom] Water Shrews

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Mammalogists,

How are Eurasian (Neomys) and American (Sorex palustris) Water Shrews 
related? Were the aquatic adaptations independently evolved, as the 
taxonomy would seem to imply?

fred.
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