Andean caenolestid

Andean caenolestid[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Paucituberculata
Family: Caenolestidae
Genus: Caenolestes
Species: C. condorensis
Binomial name
Caenolestes condorensis
Albuja and Patterson, 1996
Andean shrew opossum range

The Andean caenolestid (Caenolestes condorensis), or Andean shrew opossum, is a species of shrew opossum in the family Caenolestidae. It is known from one location at an altitude of 2000 m in the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador.[2]

References

  1. ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (16 November 2005). "Order Paucituberculata (pp. 19-20)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 19. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=10500005. 
  2. ^ a b Patterson, B. & Solari, S. (2008). Caenolestes condorensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 February 2009. Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as vulnerable