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--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Blarinini
--> GENUS Cryptotis
SPECIES Cryptotis tropicalis
| Author: | Merriam, 1895. | | Citation: | N. Amer. Fauna, 10: 21. | | Common Name: | Tropical Small-eared Shrew | | Type Locality: | Guatemala, Cobán. | | Distribution: | Eastern highlands of Chiapas (Mexico) east and south into highlands of Belize and Guatemala (Carraway, ms; Choate, 1970). | | Comments: | C. parva group. Until recently a subspecies of parva, but species rank suggested by Carraway (ms) and Woodman (pers. comm., 2003). Relations to C. orophila remain to be studied. |
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