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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Soricini
--> GENUS Sorex
--> SUBGENUS unnamed subgenus, see comments
SPECIES Sorex (unnamed subgenus, see comments) ventralis
| Author: | Merriam, 1895. | | Citation: | N. Am. Fauna, 10: 75. | | Common Name: | Chestnut-bellied Shrew | | Type Locality: | "Cerro San Felipe, Oaxaca, Mexico (altitude 1000 feet [305 m])." | | Distribution: | Endemic to Mexico; in Distrito Federal, México, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Tlaxcala (Carraway, ms). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Referred to unnamed subgenus by George (1988:456). Similar to saussurei but smaller; see Junge and Hoffmann (1981), who allocated the species to subgenus Sorex. Hall (1981) included ventralis in oreopolus. |
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