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First record of the Northern Ecuadorian Shrew, Cryptotis niausa Moreno Cárdenas & Albuja, 2014 (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae), in Colombia

2021; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 17; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15560/17.5.1345

1809-127X

Ingrith Yuliany Mejía-Fontecha, Daniela Velásquez-Guarín, Karol Dangeli Pérez Tapie, Paula A. Ossa‐López, Fredy A. Rivera‐Páez, Héctor E. Ramírez‐Chaves,

Species Distribution and Climate Change

In Colombia, seven species of small-eared shrews of the genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 have been reported, and five of them endemic to the country. Here, we present the first confirmed record from Colombia of Cryptotis niausa Moreno Cárdenas & Albuja, 2014, a species that was previously known from only nine localities in Ecuador. The Colombian record comes from the Departamento de Nariño, in extreme southwestern Colombia, and it is supported by morphology and cytochrome- b gene evidence. This record increases to eight the number of species of Cryptotis from Colombia.