Cryptotis montivagus

(H. E. Anthony, 1921)

Wandering 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

Anthony, H.E. 1921-11-03. Preliminary report on Ecuadorean mammals. No. 1. American Museum Novitates 20:1-6.

Original name as described

Blarina montivaga

Other common names

Grizzled Ecuadorean Shrew

Type material

AMNH M-47200

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Bestion, Prov. del Azuay, Ecuador."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Ecuador · Peru

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

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