Cryptotis magnimanus

Woodman & Timm, 1999

Honduran 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. and Timm, R.M. 1999. Geographic variation and evolutionary relationships among broad-clawed shrews of the _Cryptotis goldmani_-group (Mammalia: Insectivora: Soricidae). Fieldiana Zoology 91:1-35.

Original name as described

Cryptotis goodwini magnimana

Type material

KU:M:144611

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"2.5 km N, 1.6 km E Cerro San Juanillo [14°30'N, 87°53'W], Reserva Biológica Cordillera de Montecillos, Comayagua Department, Honduras, 1730 m."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Honduras

Taxonomy notes

split from C. goodwini; 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. · Woodman, N. (2011). Patterns of morphological variation amongst semifossorial shrews in the highlands of Guatemala, with the description of a new species (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 163(4), 1267-1288.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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