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

By

Mejía-Fontecha, Ingrith Yuliany
Velásquez-Guarín, Daniela
Pérez Tapie, Karol Dangeli
Ossa Lopez, Paula Andrea
Rivera Paez, Fredy Arvey
Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-9-27

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

17

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

1345--1352

Subjects

Andes , Biodiversity , Cytochrome-b , Ecuador , endemic , Morphology , Neotropics

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1345

 

Abstract

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.