A new species of<i>Cryptotis</i>(Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae) from the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuelan-Colombian Andes

Quiroga-Carmona, Marcial; Woodman, Neal

doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyv085

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“…The specimen was deposited and catalogued in the Mammalogy Collection of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales "José Celestino Mutis" from the Universidad de Pamplona (MCNUP-M-55). Confirmation of the species identification was supported on previous accounts and taxonomic revisions of the species (Woodman, 2002;Quiroga-Carmona & Molinari, 2012;Quiroga-Carmona, 2013;García et al 2014;Quiroga-Carmona & Woodman 2015).…”

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“…The Tama Small-eared Shrew (Cryptotis tamensis), recently described and separated from C. meridensis and C. thomasi (Woodman, 2002), is one of the largest shrews in the Neotropics (Quiroga-Carmona & Woodman, 2015). Endemic to Colombia and Venezuela, most information for the species only comes from few collected specimens (García et al, 2014), and therefore many aspects of its natural history and ecology still remains unknown.…”

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“…To date, the few records for Colombia are located in Norte de Santander department, specifically in the "Páramo de Tamá" (Field Museum of Natural History: FMNH 18571-18572, 18608-18611, 18613-18615, 18621; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ 21004; United State National Museum: USNM 260747) all between 2.385 and 3.329 m asl (Woodman, 2002;Woodman, 2008;Quiroga-Carmona & Woodman, 2015). However, it is expected that its distribution is potentially larger, especially given the conservation status of the larger context of the type locality in Colombia (Woodman, 2008), but still, its status and all aspects of its natural history and ecology are completely unknown (Woodman, 2008).…”

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A hundred years later: new record of the rare Cryptotis tamensis (Soricidae: Mammalia) from Tama National Natural Park, Colombia

Cáceres-Martínez

Acevedo

2017

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Here we present the most recent record of the Tama Small-eared Shrew for Colombia as a contribution to this poor-known species in the country. The record of the Tama Small-eared Shrew is located within the Tama NNP, Herran and Toledo municipalities, Norte de Santander department, Colombia on the border with Venezuela. The park presents an altitudinal range between 350 and 3.450 masl, and covers approximately 48.000 ha mostly composed of large areas of paramo, montane forest and tropical forest.

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A hundred years later: new record of the rare Cryptotis tamensis (Soricidae: Mammalia) from Tama National Natural Park, Colombia

Cáceres-Martínez

Acevedo

2017

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“…This group now includes at least 14 species, all but one of which occur above 1200 m elevation in the northern Andes or other highland regions of South America (Woodman and Péfaur 2008;Quiroga-Carmona and Molinari 2012;Quiroga-Carmona 2013;Moreno and Albuja 2014;Quiroga-Carmona and Woodman 2015). The one exception is C. endersi, which is known only from ca.…”

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A new species of small-eared shrew in the Cryptotis thomasi species group from Costa Rica (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Woodman

Timm

2016

Mamm Res

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We describe a new species of small-eared shrew, genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae), from near the community of Monteverde in the Tilarán highlands of northwestern Costa Rica. The new species is immediately distinguished from all other Costa Rican shrews its large size and long tail. Morphologically, it belongs to the Cryptotis thomasi group of small-eared shrews, a clade that is more typically distributed in the Andes Cordillera and other highland regions of northern South America. The new Costa Rican species and the Panamanian endemic Cryptotis endersi Setzer, 1950 are the only two members of this species group known to occur in Central America. Like most other members of the C. thomasi group for which the postcranial skeleton has been studied, the new species tends be more ambulatory (rather than semi-fossorial) when compared with other members of the genus. Our survey efforts over several decades failed to locate a population of the new species, and we discuss its conservation status in light of its limited potential distribution in the Tilarán highlands and the significant climatic change that has been documented in the Monteverde region during the past four decades.

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“…The shrews of the genus Cryptotis, which includes about 43 species, are distributed from the eastern United States and southern Canada through Central America and northwestern South America (He et al 2015;Quiroga-Carmona and Woodman 2015;Quiroga-Carmona and DoNascimento 2016). It is the only genus of the order Eulipotyphla found in South America, and the Huancabamba Depression region in the Andes of northern Peru is the southernmost limit of its geographic range (Tate 1932;Vivar et al 1997;Woodman 2002;Woodman and Péfaur 2008).…”

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A new species of small-eared shrew of the genus Cryptotis (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae) from the northernmost Peruvian Andes

Zeballos

Pino

Medina

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The northernmost Peruvian Andes, a unique biogeographic region characterized by the confluence of multiple distinct ecosystems (i.e. Amazon basin, Pacific rainforest, the Sechura Desert, the northern and central Andes), is the southernmost geographic range limit of the South American shrews representing the genus Cryptotis. In the northernmost Peruvian Andes, two poorly known species have traditionally been reported (C. peruviensis and C. equatoris). Our study, based on molecular and morphologic traits, confirms the presence of C. peruviensis but also the occurrence of C. montivaga, based on specimens erroneously assigned to C. equatoris. Moreover, a new species of Cryptotis from the páramo and montane forests of the Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary near the Ecuadorian border is also described. It is a member of the thomasi group and is distinguished from other South American shrews by a unique set of morphological characters, including large body size, comparatively short tail, simple ectoloph of M3, and large PM4 post protocrista.

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A new species ofCryptotis(Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae) from the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuelan-Colombian Andes

Cited by 9 publications

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A hundred years later: new record of the rare Cryptotis tamensis (Soricidae: Mammalia) from Tama National Natural Park, Colombia

A hundred years later: new record of the rare Cryptotis tamensis (Soricidae: Mammalia) from Tama National Natural Park, Colombia

A new species of small-eared shrew in the Cryptotis thomasi species group from Costa Rica (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

A new species of small-eared shrew of the genus Cryptotis (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae) from the northernmost Peruvian Andes

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