Cryptotis parvus
(Say in James, 1823)
North American Least Shrew
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Eulipotyphla |
| Suborder | : Erinaceota |
| Family | : Soricidae |
| Subfamily | : Soricinae |
| Tribe | : Blarinini |
| Genus | : Cryptotis |
Species status
Authority citation
James, E. 1823. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. Vol. I. H. C. Carey and I. Lea, Philadelphia, 503 pp.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40216587Original name as described
Sorex parvus
Other common names
American Least Shrew
Type locality
"Engineer cantonment." Identified by J. K. Jones, Jr. in 1964 as "Washington County, Nebraska, about five miles [= 8 km] north of the Douglas-Washington county line at a place approximately two miles [= 3 km] east of the present village of Ft. Calhoun."
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic
Country distribution
Canada · United States
Subregion distribution
USA(NY,NJ,PA,DE,MD,DC,VA,WV,OH,NC,SC,GA,FL,AL,TN,MS,KY,IN,IL,MI,WI,MN,MO,AR,LA,OK,TX,KS,NE,SD,WY,CO)
Taxonomy notes
ending changed from -a to -us through all of Cryptotis; previously included C. berlandieri, C. pueblensis, and C. soricinus
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. (2018). American Recent Eulipotyphla: Nesophontids, solenodons, moles, and shrews in the New World. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 650, 1-107.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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