Cryptotis mexicana

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Ecology: It occurs in humid montane tropical forest (Hutterer, 2005) and in cold, wet, pine-oak forest and forest edge. It favours damp, grassy areas bordering streams or orchards (Reid, 1997) and prefers primary forest (Choate, 1973). It is terrestrial and probably breeds throughout the year. One litter of three has been reported (Choate, 1973; Reid, 1997).[1].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cryptotis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 33 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. alticola (Central Mexican Broad-Clawed Shrew) · C. avia (Colombian Small-Eared Shrew) · C. brachyonyx (Eastern Cordillera Small-Footed Shrew) · C. colombiana (Colombian Small-Eared Shrew) · C. endersi (Ender's Small-Eared Shrew) · C. equatoris (Ecuadorean Small-Eared Shrew) · C. goldmani (Goldman's Broad-Clawed Shrew) · C. goodwini (Goodwin's Broad-Clawed Shrew) · C. gracilis (Talamancan Small Eared Shrew) · C. griseoventris (Guatemalan Broad-Clawed Shrew) · C. hondurensis (Honduran Small Eared Shrew) · C. magna (Big Mexican Small-Eared Shrew) · C. mayensis (Yucatan Small-Eared Shrew) · C. medellinia (Medellín Small-Eared Shrew) · C. mera (Darién Small-Eared Shrew) · C. meridensis (Merida Small-Eared Shrew) · C. merriami (Merriam's Small-Eared Shrew) · C. mexicana (Mexican Small-Eared Shrew) · C. mexicana mexicana (Mexican Small-Eared Shrew) · C. montivaga (Ecuadorean Small-Eared Shrew) · C. nelsoni (Nelson's Small Eared Shrew) · C. nigrescens (Blackish Small-Eared Shrew) · C. obscura (Grizzled Mexican Small-Eared Shrew) · C. orophila (Central American Least Shrew) · C. parva (North American Least Shrew) · C. parva parva (North American Least Shrew) · C. peregrina (Oaxacan Broad-Clawed Shrew) · C. peruviensis (Peruvian Small-Eared Shrew) · C. phillipsii (Phillip's Small-Eared Shrew) · C. squamipes (Western Colombian Small-Eared Shrew) · C. tamensis (Tamá Small-Eared Shrew) · C. thomasi (Thomas's Small-Eared Shrew) · C. tropicalis (Tropical Small-Eared Shrew)

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Further Reading

• A check list of mammals of the North American continent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas: supplement / by Daniel Giraud Elliott. Edited by J. A. Allen. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1917. url p. 148, p. 149.
• Fossil shrews from Honduras and their significance for late glacial evolution in body size (Mammalia: Soricidae: Cryptotis) / Neal Woodman --, Darin A. Croft --. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 2005. url p. 2, p. 3.
• Geographic variation and evolutionary relationships among broad-clawed shrews of the Cryptotis goldmani-group (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae) / Neal Woodman, Robert M. Timm. 91 1999 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1999. url fig. 2 , fig. 1 , table 1 , p. 1, p. 2, p. 20, p. 23, p. 25, p. 26, p. 27, p. 28, p. 29, p. 3, p. 30, p. 34, p. 4, p. 5, p. 7, p. iii.
• Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the Cryptotis nigrescens species complex of small-eared shrews (Insectivora, Soricidae): with the description of a new species from Colombia / Neal Woodman, Robert M. Timm. 74 1993 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1993. url p. 3.
• List of North American land mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911; by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1912. url p. 26.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url , p. 206, p. 221, p. 222, p. 251, p. 3, p. 340, p. 341, p. 342, p. 344, p. 345, p. 348, p. 349, p. 350, p. 352, p. 413, p. 474, p. 475, p. 512, p. 79.
• Proceedings of the New England Zoo?logical Club. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The Club, 1899- url p. 37, p. 38.
• Readings in mammalogy / selected from the original literature and introduced with comments by J. Knox Jones, Jr., and Sydney Anderson. [Lawrence, Kans.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1970. url p. 514, p. 516, p. 519.
• Selected readings in mammalogy: selected from the original literature and introduced with comments / by J. Knox Jones, Jr., Sydney Anderson, and Robert S. Hoffmann. Lawrence, Kan.: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1976. url p. 552, p. 554, p. 557.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 19 1970 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 197, p. 206, p. 206, p. 208, p. 214, p. 215, p. 216, p. 224, fig. 6, page 225, p. 226, p. 227, fig. 7, page 230, p. 232, p. 235, p. 237, fig. 9, page 240, p. 241, p. 248, p. 270, p. 300, p. 303, fig. 20, page 304, p. 397, p. 398, p. 637, p. 638.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Insectivore Specialist Group 1996. Cryptotis mexicana. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Woodman, N. 2008. Cryptotis mexicana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Colección de Mamíferos de la Sierra Volcánica Transversal de México (UAM-I)
• Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science: Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2479682
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-633768
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 633768
• IUCN ID: 203242
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 150815

Footnotes

1. Woodman, N. 2008. Cryptotis mexicana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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