Nelson's Small-eared Shrew

Nelson's Small-eared Shrew
Nelson's Small-eared Shrew
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Cryptotis
Species: C. nelsoni
Binomial name
Cryptotis nelsoni
{Merriam, 1895}
Nelson's Small-eared Shrew range

Nelson's Small-eared Shrew (Cryptotis nelsoni) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to eastern Mexico.

The species was discovered by Edward William Nelson and Edward Alphonso Goldman in 1894, who collected a number of specimens from the slopes of the San Martín volcano in Veracruz, Mexico. The species was then not recorded again, and thought by many to be extinct, until being re-discovered in the same area in 2004 (as described in 2009).[2][3] Its biology is essentially unknown.

References

  1. ^ "Cryptotis nelsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136389. Retrieved 25 Sept. 2010. 
  2. ^ 'Extinct' tiny shrew rediscovered
  3. ^ Rediscovery of the critically endangered Nelson's small-eared shrew (Cryptotis nelsoni), endemic to Volcán San Martín, Eastern México