10. Short Snouted Jumping Shrew 21 Family - (Soricidae) Genus Species - (Nasilio brachyrhynchus) Serial numbers - (295 - Sand dune, 15 ft. Van Staardens River Mouth, 25 mi.W, Port Elizabeth) I didn't see this shrew alive so can only record his habitat. He was taken in a trap set on a sand dune about 100 yards from the sea. The dune was about 15 feet high and partly crowned with numerous species of succulenta and thorny bushes. Saw many small rodent and shrew tracks on the sand and dung in the favorite feeding places.