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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Notiosoricini
--> GENUS Megasorex
SPECIES Megasorex gigas
| Author: | Merriam, 1897. | | Citation: | Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11: 227. | | Common Name: | Mexican Shrew | | Type Locality: | Mexico, Jalisco, near San Sebastián, mountains at Milpillas. | | Distribution: | Nayarit to Oaxaca (Mexico). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Formerly included in Notiosorex (Hall, 1981:65); but Repenning (1967:56) and Armstrong and Jones (1972a, Mammalian Species No. 16) considered Megasorex a distinct genus; a view supported by George (1986) on the basis of allozyme data. |
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