First record of the Northern Ecuadorian Shrew, Cryptotis niausa Moreno Cárdenas & Albuja, 2014 (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae), in Colombia
Ingrith Yuliany Mejía-Fontecha,
Daniela Velásquez-Guarín,
Karol Dangeli Pérez Tapie,
Paula Andrea Ossa-Lopez,
Fredy Arvey Rivera-Páez,
Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves
Affiliations
Ingrith Yuliany Mejía-Fontecha
Grupo de Investigación en Genética, Biodiversidad y Manejo de Ecosistemas (GEBIOME), Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas. Calle 65 No.26-10, Aparatado aéreo 275; 170004
Daniela Velásquez-Guarín
Universidad de Caldas
Karol Dangeli Pérez Tapie
Universidad de Caldas
Paula Andrea Ossa-Lopez
Universidad de Caldas
Fredy Arvey Rivera-Páez
Universidad de Caldas
Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves
Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas
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.
