All rights reserved. This document may be used, with this header included, for noncommercial purposes within a subscribed institution . No copies of this work may be distributed electronically outside of the subscribed institution, in whole or in part, without written permission from the JHU Press . General coloration is grayish. The ears are conspicuous.
Females have six mammae.
Notiosorex is found in a wide variety of xeric habitats. Nests are usually constructed on the surface of the ground beneath dead or dying agaves, among human litter, beneath piles of firewood and building materials, or in the houses of wood rats. It does not make regular runways. A captive individual was active at night, twitching its snout and vibrissae while foraging about. The diet includes a wide variety of insects and other invertebrates, and captives have eaten dead vertebrates.