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  <dc:contributor>C.A. Cuartas-Calle</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>C.A. Delgado-V.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>N. Woodman</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2003</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p class="chapter-para"&gt;The Colombian small-eared shrew,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cryptotis colombiana&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Woodman and Timm, was described from the Colombian Andes in 1993. Its original allocation to the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. nigrescens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;group recently was questioned based on several cranial characters the species appeared to share with some members of the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. thomasi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;group. We review characteristics of the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. nigrescens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. thomasi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;groups, and we describe the humerus of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. colombiana&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and the humerus and manus of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. medellinia&lt;/i&gt;. The morphology of the humerus joins the suite of characters that supports the hypotheses that&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. colombiana&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;is not a member of the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. thomasi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;group and that all remaining South American species form a cohesive, definable set that is probably monophyletic.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1644/BME-007</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Oxford University Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>The humerus of Cryptotis colombiana and its bearing on the species' phylogenetic relationships (Soricomorpha: Soricidae)</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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