New Mexico shrew

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New Mexico shrew
Conservation status

Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Sorex
Species:
S. neomexicanus
Binomial name
Sorex neomexicanus
Bailey, 1913
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New Mexico shrew range

The New Mexico shrew (Sorex neomexicanus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found only in New Mexico in the Capitan and Sandia-Manzano Mountains. Its total length is 103 to 121 millimeters. Its tail length is 39 to 54 millimeters. It weighs 6 to 8 grams.[2] It was included in Sorex monticolus until 1996.[3] It is distinguished from Sorex monticolus by its teeth. The row of unicuspid teeth is longer in Sorex neomexicanus than in Sorex monticolus, and Sorex neomexicanus has a wider space between its first upper unicuspid and second upper unicuspid (going from front to back) than Sorex monticolus does.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Hammerson, G.A.; Matson, J.; Reid, F.; Woodman, N. (2019). "Sorex neomexicanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T136608A22319242. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136608A22319242.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Kays, Roland, Roland W. Kays, and Don E. Wilson. Mammals of North America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Print.
  3. ^ Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Print.


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