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Cryptotis Pomel, 1848
Taxonomic Serial No.: 179970

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):	small-eared shrews [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2024

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Eulipotyphla Waddell, Okada and Hasegawa, 1999
	Family	Soricidae G. Fischer, 1814 – shrews
	Subfamily	Soricinae G. Fischer, 1814
	Tribe	Blarinini Kretzoi, 1965 – small-eared shrews, American short-tailed shrews
	Genus	Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 – small-eared shrews
		Direct Children:
	Species	Cryptotis alticola (Merriam, 1895) – Central Mexican Broad-clawed Shrew, Popocatepetl Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis andinus Woodman, 2023 – Southern Colombian Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis aroensis Quiroga-Carmona and Molinari, 2012 – Aroa Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis berlandieri (Baird, 1858) – Berlandier's Least Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis brachyonyx Woodman, 2003 – Eastern Cordillera Small-eared Shrew, Eastern Cordillera Small-footed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis cavatorculus Woodman, 2015 – Santa Barbara Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis celaque Woodman, 2015 – Celaque Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis colombianus Woodman and Timm, 1993 – Colombian Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis dinirensis Quiroga-Carmona and DoNascimiento, 2016 – Dinira Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis eckerlini Woodman, 2019 – Ralph's Broad-clawed Shrew, Cucurucho Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis endersi Setzer, 1950 – Enders's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis equatoris (Thomas, 1912) – Ecuadorean Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis evaristoi Zeballos et al., 2018 – Evaristo's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis goldmani (Merriam, 1895) – Goldman's Broad-clawed Shrew, Goldman's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis goodwini Jackson, 1933 – Goodwin's Broad-clawed Shrew, Goodwin's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis gracilis G. S. Miller, 1911 – Talamancan Small-eared Shrew, Talamancan Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis griseoventris Jackson, 1933 – Guatemalan Broad-clawed Shrew, Dark Mexican Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis hondurensis Woodman and Timm, 1992 – Honduran Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis huttereri Woodman, 2023 – Rainer's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis lacandonensis Guevara et al., 2014 – Lacandona Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis lacertosus Woodman, 2010 – Muscular Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis magnimana Woodman and Timm, 1999 – Honduran Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis magnus (Merriam, 1895) – Big Mexican Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis mam Woodman, 2010 – Mam Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis matsoni Woodman, 2019 – Jack's Broad-clawed Shrew, Mataquescuintla Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis mayensis (Merriam, 1901) – Yucatan Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis mccarthyi Woodman, 2015 – Omoa Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis medellinius Thomas, 1921 – Medellin Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis meridensis (Thomas, 1898) – Merida Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis merriami Choate, 1970 – Merriam's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis merus Goldman, 1912 – Darien Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis mexicanus (Coues, 1877) – Small Mexican Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis montecristo Woodman, 2019 – Montecristo Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis monteverdensis Woodman and Timm, 2017 – Moneverde Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis montivagus (Anthony, 1921) – Wandering Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis nelsoni (Merriam, 1895) – Nelson's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis niausa Moreno and Albuja, 2014 – Blind Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis nigrescens (J. A. Allen, 1895) – Blackish Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis obscurus (Merriam, 1895) – Grizzled Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis oreoryctes Woodman, 2011 – Highland Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis orophilus (J. A. Allen, 1895) – Central American Least Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis osgoodi Stone, 1914 – Osgood's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis parvus (Say, 1823) – North American Least Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis peregrinus (Merriam, 1895) – Oaxacan Broad-clawed Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis perijensis Quiroga-Carmona and Woodman, 2015 – Perija Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis peruviensis Vivar, Pacheco and Valqui, 1997 – Peruvian Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis phillipsii (Schaldach, 1966) – Phillips' Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis pueblensis Jackson, 1933 – Puebla Least Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis soricinus (Merriam, 1895) – Mexican Least Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis squamipes (J. A. Allen, 1912) – Western Colombian Small-eared Shrew, Scaly-footed Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis tamensis Woodman, 2002 – Tamá Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis thomasi (Merriam, 1897) – Thomas' Small-eared Shrew, Thomas's Small-eared Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis tropicalis (Merriam, 1895) – Tropical Small-eared Shrew, Tropical Least Shrew
	Species	Cryptotis venezuelensis Quiroga-Carmona, 2013 – Venezuelan Small-eared Shrew

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alfred L. Gardner
	Notes:	Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

	Expert:	Rainer Hutterer
	Notes:	Zoologisches Forschunginstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Burgin, Connor, Kai He, Rudolf Haslauer, et al. / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds.
	Publication Date:	2018
	Article/Chapter Title:	Family Soricidae (Shrews)
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 8: Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos
	Page(s):	332-550
	Publisher:	Lynx Edicions
	Publication Place:	Barcelona, Spain
	ISBN/ISSN:	978-84-16728-084
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
	Publication Date:	2002
	Article/Chapter Title:	Opinion 2005 (Case 3022): Catalogue des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803): placed on the Official List of Works Approved as Available for Zoological Nomenclature
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 59, no. 2
	Page(s):	153-154
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0007-5167
	Notes:	Available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34358261
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
	Page(s):	2142
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Cryptotis

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Mammal genus Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 (TSN 179970) is a senior homonym of amphibian genus Cryptotis Günther, 1863 (TSN 1094909)

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