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--> GENUS Cryptotis
SPECIES Cryptotis mayensis
Author: | Merriam, 1901. | Citation: | Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3: 559. | Common Name: | Yucatan Small-eared Shrew | Type Locality: | Mexico, Yucatán, Chichén Itzá (from a Maya ruin). | Distribution: | Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and adjacent Belize and Guatemala. Also known from owl pellets collected in Guerrero. | Comments: | C. nigrescens group. Species redefined by Woodman and Timm (1993). Also recorded from the Pleistocene of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (Woodman, 1995). |
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