Russian desman, Desmana moschata, endangered. Musk shrew, Sorex moschatus. From an illustration by Pierre Simon Pallas. Copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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