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--> GENUS Cryptotis
SPECIES Cryptotis nigrescens
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1895. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 7: 339. | Common Name: | Blackish Small-eared Shrew | Type Locality: | Costa Rica, San José Province, San Isidro. | Distribution: | Highlands above 800 m in Costa Rica and W Panama. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | C. nigrescens group. Choate (1970) included mayensis and merriami as subspecies, but see Woodman and Timm (1993) who revised the nigrescens group. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
tersus Goodwin, 1954 zeteki Setzer, 1950
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