Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Eulipotyphla | Soricidae |
Scientific Name: | Sorex milleri Jackson, 1947 | |||
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Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable B1ab(iii) ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2008 |
Date Assessed: | 2008-06-30 |
Assessor(s): | Matson, J., Woodman, N., Castro-Arellano, I. & de Grammont, P.C. |
Reviewer(s): | Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Chanson, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) |
Justification: Listed as Vulnerable because its extent of occurrence is less than 20,000 km², its range is severely fragmented, and there is ongoing decline in the extent and quality of its forest habitat. |
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Range Description: | This species is restricted to the Sierra Madre Oriental of Coahuila and Nuevo León, Mexico, as well as a disjunct location in north western Coahuila. It is found from 2,400 m up to 3,700 m asl (Ceballos and Oliva, 2005; Carraway, 2007). | ||||
Countries occurrence: | Native: Mexico | ||||
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Population: | No population information is available for this species. | ||
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Habitat and Ecology: | It is usually found in moist shaded areas on logs amongst the leaf litter of high elevation Douglas-fir-pine-aspen and scrub piñon pine woodlands. It is insectivorous (Nowak, 1999). |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): | Deforestation, mining, and overgrazing outside of the protected areas where it occurs are major threats. |
Conservation Actions: | This species occurs on more than five different sierras, two of which are protected areas (Ivan Castro pers. comm.). |
Citation: | Matson, J., Woodman, N., Castro-Arellano, I. & de Grammont, P.C. 2008. Sorex milleri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T20397A9195960. . Downloaded on 20 April 2018. |
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