Cryptotis soricinus
(C. H. Merriam, 1895)
Mexican 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
Living
Found in the wild
Authority citation
Merriam, C.H. 1895-12-31. Revision of the shrews of the American genera Blarina and Notiosorex. North American Fauna 10:1-34.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45540248Original name as described
Blarina soricina
Type material
USNM:MAMM:50762
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/334a2a1e3-c535-4f7b-a7fb-00bd402273c1Type locality
"Tlalpam [= Tlalpan], Valley of Mexico (altitude, 7,600 feet [= 2317 m])," Mexico. Restricted by L. N. Carraway in 2007 to "latitude 19.26°N, longitude 99.15°W."
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic
Country distribution
Mexico
Taxonomy notes
split from C. parva
Taxonomy notes citation
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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