Eastern caenolestid

Eastern caenolestid
Holotype, Sangay National Park, Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Paucituberculata
Family: Caenolestidae
Genus: Caenolestes
Species:
C. sangay
Binomial name
Caenolestes sangay
Ojala-Barbour et al., 2013

The eastern caenolestid (Caenolestes sangay) is a shrew opossum found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador.[2]

  1. ^ Ojala-Barbour, R.; Brito, D.; Pinto, C. (2020) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Caenolestes sangay". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T51222063A166524217. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. ^ Ojala-Barbour, R.; Pinto, C. M.; Brito, J.; Albuja, L.; Lee, T. E.; Patterson, B. D. (October 2013). "A new species of shrew-opossum (Paucituberculata: Caenolestide) with a phylogeny of extant caenolestids". Journal of Mammalogy. 94 (5): 967–982. doi:10.1644/13-MAMM-A-018.1.

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