Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Blackish small-eared shrew FAMILY - Soricidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Cryptotis nigrescens mayensis REFERENCES - 01, 02 and 3 District Reference Orange Walk 2 Cayo 2 Cayo 5 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Private land, see comments Collected as voucher February 5 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 6 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 6 General Distribution Comments 6* ROM Baking Pot 4* Cryptotis sp. skeletal remains found in tomb, Caracol 2* specimen from Baking Pot 5* Disney collection (ROM) Baking Pot, February 16, 1966 References 1 McCarthy, T. J. 1993. Checklist: Mammals of Belize. BAS Newsletter 25 (2-3). 2 Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley & Sons. New York. 1:62-63 3 Wilson, D. E., D. M. Reeder. 1993. Mammal Species of the World, a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second ed. Smithsonian Inst. p.109 4 Howell, D. 1990. The Bats of Caracol. Parts I and II. 22 pp. Unpub. report for Wildlife Conservation Society. 5 Peterson, R. L. 1968. Cryptotis mayensis Recorded from British Honduras. Journal of Mammalogy. 49(4):796. 6 ROM. 1995. Collections data from mammal department, Royal Ontario Museum.
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