Critically Endangered
Nelson's small-eared shrew
Cryptotis nelsoni
Nelson's small-eared shrew is a mammal in the family Soricidae (order Soricomorpha) — Cryptotis nelsoni, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The shrews are tiny (only 10 centimetres long) with brown fur.
The species was then not recorded again, and thought by many to be extinct, until being rediscovered in the same area in 2004 (as described in 2009).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to eastern Mexico.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The Nelson's Small-Eared Shrew is considered to be one of the world's 100 most threatened species on the planet. Once thought extinct, they have been recently rediscovered in very small numbers.
Nelson's small-eared shrew is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Nelson's small-eared shrew, Wikidata item Q1764634. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
