The San Cristobal Shrew is known from only a single specimen collected in the cloud forests near San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. Nothing is known about its ecology, habitat preferences, or population status. It may represent a highly localized endemic or could be more widespread but simply uncollected due to the difficulty of shrew survey work in remote Mexican highlands.
Habitat
Cloud forests of highland Chiapas, Mexico
Diet
Insects and small invertebrates
How common
Very rare
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