Cryptotis colombianus

Woodman & Timm, 1993

Colombian Small-eared Shrew

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Eulipotyphla
Suborder : Erinaceota
Family : Soricidae
Subfamily : Soricinae
Tribe : Blarinini
Genus : Cryptotis

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Woodman, N. and Timm, R.M. 1993. Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the _Cryptotis nigrescens_ species complex of small-eared shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), with the description of a new species from Colombia. Fieldiana Zoology 74:1-30.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2871603

Original name as described

Cryptotis colombiana

Other common names

Colombian Shrew

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:69816

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=9114069a-457e-44ea-a3bc-63f49cf531c7

Type locality

"Colombia; Central Cordillera; Antioquia Dept., Sonsón; 15 km E of Río Negrito; 1750 m." Corrected by N. Woodman and J. E. Péfaur in 2008 to "Río Negrito, 15 km E of Sonsón, Antioquia, Colombia."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia

Taxonomy notes

ending changed from -a to -us through all of Cryptotis

Taxonomy notes citation

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). 2006. Opinion 2164 (Case 3328). Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia, Didelphidae): Gender Corrected to Feminine, and Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 (Mammalia, Soricidae): Gender Fixed as Masculine. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 63, 282–283.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004131

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Cryptotis colombiana

Woodman & Timm, 1993

Family

Soricidae

Root name

colombianus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:69816

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=9114069a-457e-44ea-a3bc-63f49cf531c7

Authority page

24

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2871603

Authority publication

Fieldiana Zoology

Name usages

  1. Hutterer (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9714)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #136795) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Wilson & Mittermeier (2018:429) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57916)
  4. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136795/22284247) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Cryptotis colombianus

Mammal Diversity Database, 2019

Family

Soricidae

Root name

colombianus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination · unpublished_electronic

Authority page

ID #136795

Name usages

  1. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #136795) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004131) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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