Variación intraespecífica en Cryptotis aroensis (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae) de Venezuela

A hundred years later: new record of the rare Cryptotis tamensis (Soricidae: Mammalia) from Tama National Natural Park, Colombia

“…The specimen was deposited and catalogued in the Mammalogy Collection of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales "José Celestino Mutis" from the Universidad de Pamplona (MCNUP-M-55). Confirmation of the species identification was supported on previous accounts and taxonomic revisions of the species (Woodman, 2002;Quiroga-Carmona & Molinari, 2012;Quiroga-Carmona, 2013;García et al 2014;Quiroga-Carmona & Woodman 2015).…”

“…The Tama Small-eared Shrew (Cryptotis tamensis), recently described and separated from C. meridensis and C. thomasi (Woodman, 2002), is one of the largest shrews in the Neotropics (Quiroga-Carmona & Woodman, 2015). Endemic to Colombia and Venezuela, most information for the species only comes from few collected specimens (García et al, 2014), and therefore many aspects of its natural history and ecology still remains unknown. Despite its very restricted and microendemic range in the Paramo of the Tama, in bordering areas of Colombia and Venezuela in the highlands of the Tama National Natural Park (NNP) in Colombia and El Tama National Park (NP) in Venezuela (Quiroga-Carmona, 2013;García et al, 2014), the species has received little attention, and no specific studies, other than its taxonomic aspects (Woodman, 2002), have been evaluated.…”

“…Endemic to Colombia and Venezuela, most information for the species only comes from few collected specimens (García et al, 2014), and therefore many aspects of its natural history and ecology still remains unknown. Despite its very restricted and microendemic range in the Paramo of the Tama, in bordering areas of Colombia and Venezuela in the highlands of the Tama National Natural Park (NNP) in Colombia and El Tama National Park (NP) in Venezuela (Quiroga-Carmona, 2013;García et al, 2014), the species has received little attention, and no specific studies, other than its taxonomic aspects (Woodman, 2002), have been evaluated. The species and its range is considered isolated from C. meridensis by the Táchira depression, highlighting the biogeographic importance and potential of the Tama Massif for endemicity and other phylogeographic singularities (Woodman, 2002).…”