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 --> TRIBE Soricini
 --> GENUS Sorex
 --> SUBGENUS Otisorex
				
 SPECIES Sorex (Otisorex) veraepacis
 
| Author: | Alston, 1877. |  | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877: 445. |  | Common Name: | Verapaz Shrew |  | Type Locality: | "Coban (Vera Paz) [Alta Verapaz], Guatemala." |  | Distribution: | Montane forests of C Guerrero, Puebla, and Veracruz, south through the highlands of Oaxaca and Chiapas (Mexico), to SW Guatemala. |  | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). |  | Comments: | Subgenus Otisorex. Mexican subspecies according to Carraway (ms). |  |  |  | 
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