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Published September 27, 2021 | Version v1
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First record of the Northern Ecuadorian Shrew, Cryptotis niausa Moreno Cárdenas & Albuja, 2014 (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae), in Colombia

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  • 1. Centro de Museos, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia|Grupo de Investigación en Genética, Biodiversidad y Manejo de Ecosistemas (GEBIOME), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas. Calle 65 No.26-10, Aparatado aéreo 275; 170004, Manizales, Colombia
  • 2. Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
  • 3. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia

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In Colombia, seven species of small-eared shrews of the genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 have been reported, and five of them endemic to the country. Here, we present the first confirmed record from Colombia of Cryptotis niausa Moreno Cárdenas & Albuja, 2014, a species that was previously known from only nine localities in Ecuador. The Colombian record comes from the Departamento de Nariño, in extreme southwestern Colombia, and it is supported by morphology and cytochrome-b gene evidence. This record increases to eight the number of species of Cryptotis from Colombia.

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