Yucatan small-eared shrew

Yucatan small-eared shrew
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Soricomorpha
Family:	Soricidae
Genus:	Cryptotis
Species:	C. mayensis
Binomial name
Cryptotis mayensis (Merriam, 1901)
Yucatan Small-eared Shrew range

The Yucatan small-eared shrew (Cryptotis mayensis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is mainly known from lowlands of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula,^[2] where it has been found in dry scrubland and tropical dry forest at elevations below 100 m.^[1] It is threatened by deforestation.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Cryptotis mayensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136488. Retrieved 11 September 2009. 
2. ^ Hutterer, Rainer (16 November 2005). "Order Soricomorpha (pp. 220-311)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 272. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13700376. 

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