HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS Otisorex
SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) macrodon
Author: | Merriam, 1895. | Citation: | N. Am. Fauna, 10: 82. | Common Name: | Large-toothed Shrew | Type Locality: | "Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico (altitude 4,200 feet [1280 m])." | Distribution: | Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz, in mountains from 4000-9500 ft (1219-2896 m). See Heaney and Birney (1977). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Subgenus Otisorex. Similar to, and possibly conspecific with, veraepacis (see Junge and Hoffmann, 1981). |
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