Cryptotis lacertosus

Woodman, 2010

Muscular Broad-clawed 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

Authority citation

Woodman, N. 2010-06-16. Two new species of shrews (Soricidae) from the western highlands of Guatemala. Journal of Mammalogy 91(3):566-579.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1644/09-MAMM-A-346.1

Original name as described

Cryptotis lacertosus

Other common names

Strong-armed Broad-clawed Shrew

Type material

USNM:MAMM:569443

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"a north-facing slope with abundant downed trees and mosses in a relatively closed-canopy cloud forest dominated by oaks, pines, and firs; 5 km SW San Mateo Ixtatán, 3,110 m, Huehuetenango, Guatemala."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Guatemala

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Woodman, N. (2010). Two new species of shrews (Soricidae) from the western highlands of Guatemala. Journal of Mammalogy, 91(3), 566-579.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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