Cryptotis andinus

Woodman, 2023

Southern Colombian 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

Woodman, N. 2023-11-15. Two new species of small-eared shrews of the genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848, from the Colombian Andes (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae). Annals of Carnegie Museum 88(3):203-234.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.2992/007.088.0303

Original name as described

Cryptotis andinus

Type material

USNM:MAMM:568877

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Colombia: Nariño: Municipio Cumbal, San Felipe, 2300 m [ca. 0°54′27′′N, 77°47′29′′W]."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Woodman, N. (2023). Two new species of small-eared shrews of the genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848, from the Colombian Andes (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 88(3), 203-234.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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