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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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