Authority citation: Quiroga-Carmona, M. and DoNascimiento, C. 2016-09. A new species of small-eared shrew of the genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae) from the easternmost mountains of the Venezuelan Andes. Mammalian Biology 81(5):494-505.
Authority publication link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2016.04.002
Original name as described: Cryptotis dinirensis
Nominal names: dinirensis Quiroga-Carmona & DoNascimiento, 2016
Other common names: Dinira Shrew
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Eulipotyphla -- Family: Soricidae -- Subfamily: Soricinae -- Tribe: Blarinini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: EBRG 24723
Type locality: "Las Antenas sector of the Parque Nacional Dinira, along Carache-La Peña road, Trujillo State, Venezuela, 9°41'N, 70°04'W, elevation 2550 m."
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Venezuela (VEN)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status:
Species-specific notes: recently described
Citation: Quiroga-Carmona, M., & DoNascimiento, C. (2016). A new species of small-eared shrew of the genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla, Soricidae) from the easternmost mountains of the Venezuelan Andes. Mammalian Biology-Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 81(5), 494-505.
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