Cryptotis osgoodi

(Stone, 1914)

Osgood's 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

Authority citation

Stone, W. 1914-03-31. On a collection of mammals from Ecuador. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 66(1):9-19.

Original name as described

Blarina osgoodi

Other common names

Osgood's Shrew

Type material

ANSP 12732

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Hacienda Garzon, Mt. Pichincha, 10,500 ft. [= 3200 m] altitude," Pichincha, Ecuador.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Ecuador

Taxonomy notes

split from C. equatoris

Taxonomy notes citation

Moreno Cárdenas, P. A., & Albuja, L. (2014). Una nueva especie de Musaraña del género Cryptotis Pomel 1848 (Mammalia: Soricomorpha: Soricidae) de Ecuador y estatus taxonomico de Cryptotis equatoris Thomas (1912). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Sú Paulo), 54(28), 403-418.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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