Check List 17(5): 1345-1352, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1345
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¶‡ Centro de Museos, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia§ 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, Manizales, Colombia| Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia¶ Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
Corresponding author: Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves ( hector.ramirez@ucaldas.edu.co ) Academic editor: William Tavares © Ingrith Yuliany Mejía-Fontecha, Daniela Velásquez-Guarín, Karol Dangeli Pérez Tapie, Paula Andrea Ossa-Lopez, Fredy Arvey Rivera-Páez, Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Mejía-Fontecha IY, Velásquez-Guarín D, Pérez Tapie KD, Ossa-Lopez PA, Rivera-Páez FA, Ramírez-Chaves HE (2021) First record of the Northern Ecuadorian Shrew, Cryptotis niausa Moreno Cárdenas & Albuja, 2014 (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae), in Colombia. Check List 17(5): 1345-1352. 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.
Keywords
Andes, biodiversity, cytochrome-b, Ecuador, endemic, morphology, Neotropics