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--> GENUS Notiosorex
SPECIES Notiosorex cockrumi
Author: | Baker, O'Neill, and McAliley, 2003. | Citation: | Occas. Pap., Mus. Texas Tech Univ., 222: 2. | Common Name: | Cockrum's Gray Shrew | Type Locality: | USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge, T21S, R28E Section NW 1/4 20, 4460 ft. (1359 m). | Distribution: | Arizona (USA) to C Sonora (Mexico). | Comments: | A cryptic species indentified on the basis of cytochrome b gene fragments. Carraway and Timm (2000) included this new taxon in crawfordi and stated that they "found no identifyable morphological differences." Sympatric with crawfordi in SE Arizona. A karyotype of 2n = 62, FN = 94 reported earlier from Pima County, Arizona (Baker and Hsu, 1970), may refer to this species, while 2n= 68 and FN = 102 may refer to crawfordi. Molecular data also indicate that a third species occurs in Baja California (Baker et al., 2003a). |
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