Salvin's Shrew is a little-known cloud forest shrew of the highlands of Guatemala and adjacent Chiapas, Mexico, named for Osbert Salvin, a 19th-century British naturalist who collected extensively in Central America. Only a handful of specimens are known. Like other long-tailed shrews of montane Central America, it is presumed to forage in moist forest floor microhabitats.
Habitat
Cloud forests and pine-oak forests of Guatemala and Chiapas
Diet
Insects and small invertebrates
How common
Very rare
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