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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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