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Cryptotis mayensis Merriam 1901
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Cryptotis mayensis Merriam 1901
Cryptotis mayensis Merriam 1901, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3: 559.
Type Locality: Mexico, Yucatán, Chichén Itzá (from a Maya ruin).
Vernacular Names: Yucatan Small-eared Shrew.
Distribution: Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and adjacent Belize and Guatemala. Also known from owl pellets collected in Guerrero.
Discussion: C. nigrescens group. Species redefined by Woodman and Timm (1993). Also recorded from the Pleistocene of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (Woodman, 1995).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, pp. 220-311 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 272, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BFF703DCC4E4C98D20FE0AB477F0FE06 (URL)
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- https://www.gbif.org/species/231545040 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Merriam
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Cryptotis
- Species
- mayensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptotis mayensis Merriam, 1901 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Woodman, N., and R. M. Timm. 1993. Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the Cryptotis nigrescens species complex of small-eared shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), with the description of a new species from Colombia. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 1452: 1 - 30.
- Woodman, N. 1995. Morphological variation between Pleistocene and Recent samples of Cryptotis (Insectivora: Soricidae) from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy, 76: 223 - 231.