Central Mexican broad-clawed shrew [SEP] taxon rank
Goodwin's broad-clawed shrew


Goodwin's broad-clawed shrew ("Cryptotis goodwini") is a species of mammal in the shrew family, Soricidae. Body length and size of adults average 9.49 cm and 7.0 grams respectively making it a relatively larger shew. What distinguishes this from other shrews are its long claws. They range from the south part of the Siera Madre of Chiapas, to the Sierra Madra of Guatemala to the west of El Salvador and Honduras. Within Mexico it is found only in the state of Chiapas. In this mountain range it
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Goodwin's broad-clawed shrew


has been found ranging from 915 m to 3350 m. These forests are known to be temperate clouded. However, the "C. goodwini" can also be found in pine, oak, cypress, fir forests.They like other shrews in the genus "Cryptotis" tend to live a fossorial lifestyle burrowing in the ground for both food and shelter. The tail of "C. goodwini" shrew is short and it accounts for approximately 35% of their body length. The forelimbs of the shrew with its long claws distinguish this from
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American shrew mole


moles. The enamel that covers its teeth is white instead of mahogany or reddish-brown, like it is in shrews. It also lacks a penis bone. Its front paws are smaller and do not face outwards from the body as in more fossorial moles, and so are more similar to those of shrews. The front paws are also broad with bifurcate phalanges, which provide more support for the claws in order to dig. Also, the three middle claws of the front paws are elongated and the eyes are also completely
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Nail (anatomy)


claw. Tarsiers have a grooming claw on second and third toes. Less commonly known, a grooming claw is also found on the second pedal digit of owl monkeys ("Aotus"), titis ("Callicebus"), and possibly other New World monkeys. The needle-clawed bushbaby ("Euoticus") has keeled nails (the thumb and the first and the second toes have claws) featuring a central ridge that ends in a needle-like tip. In tree shrews, all digits have claws and,
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Mammal


small or absent. Truly fossorial mammals have short, stout legs as strength is more important than speed to a burrowing mammal, but semi-fossorial mammals have cursorial legs. The front paws are broad and have strong claws to help in loosening dirt while excavating burrows, and the back paws have webbing, as well as claws, which aids in throwing loosened dirt backwards. Most have large incisors to prevent dirt from flying into their mouth. Many fossorial mammals such as shrews, hedgehogs, and moles were classified under the now
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Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve


categorised into two types; dwarf forests which is dominated by low growing "Osbeckia buxifolia" while taller forests featured by "Rhododendron zeylanicum" and "Actinodaphne speciosa". The reserve harbours many species of endemic mammals such as purple-faced langur, toque macaque, mayor's mouse, Ohiya rat, Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew, and Pearson's long-clawed shrew. Some of these mammals are strictly endemic to this region. Sri Lanka leopard, fishing cat, wild boar,
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Ugandan musk shrew


, with bristles long and a pilosity of 70 to 80%. The hind feet are both long and broad. This species resembles the African giant shrew ("Crocidura olivieri"), but is slightly smaller, with a smaller, less robust skull. The Ugandan musk shrew has a disjoint distribution, having been found in Uganda, where the type locality is Kampala, in Tandala in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve and Batouri in the Central African Republic. It is present
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List of mammals of the Central African Republic


gymnures look more like large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater species.
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Large-toothed shrew


The large-toothed shrew or Mexican large-toothed shrew ("Sorex macrodon") is one of 77 species within the genus "Sorex". Registered on the IUCN Red List as vulnerable with a decreasing population, the Mexican large-toothed shrew has been recorded only 14 times in seven locations. The shrew is a member of the red-toothed shrew subfamily Soricinae, and the more taxonomically defined tribe Soricini. Members of the latter category exhibit long tails relative to body size. With an estimated range around 6,400 to
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Marsh shrew


Merriam with its original name, "Atophyrax bendirii" (a monotypic taxon at the time). The first specimen was obtained southeast of Fort Klamath in Klamath County, Oregon, at a location from the Williamson River. Merriam obtained the specimen from Charles Bendire, an ornithologist and army captain stationed at Fort Klamath. The shrew was caught in late July or early August by one of the dogs in the camp, and a soldier gave it to Bendire. Merriam named it Bendire's shrew ("Atophyrax bendirii") in
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Kelaart's long-clawed shrew


Kelaart's long-clawed shrew ("Feroculus feroculus") is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Feroculus. It is endemic to Sri Lanka and southern India. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is known as in Sinhala. The species is named for zoologist Edward Frederick Kelaart. Head and body length is . Tail is long. Pelage cloe, soft, and
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Pearson's long-clawed shrew


Pearson's long-clawed shrew ("Solisorex pearsoni") is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Solisorex. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is known as ශ්‍රී ලංකා නියදිගු මා හික් මීයා in Sinhala. It is named after Dr Joseph Pearson FRSE, Director of the Columbo Museum 1910-1933 who found it on 1 January 1924. Head
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Merida small-eared shrew


The forepaws are large compared with other shrews, and have long claws. However, the species may be most easily distinguished from other small-eared shrews living in the same area by its upper canine teeth, which are unusually small, and are missing on one or both sides of the mouth in about 25% of individuals. Females have four teats, located on the inguinal region, while males have small, indistinct, scent glands on the flanks. Merida small-eared shrews are found only in mountainous regions of the
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Four-toed elephant shrew


forelimbs and long back limbs. The differences between the regular elephant shrew and the four-toed elephant shrew can be seen in facial features, body length and weight. Compared to the regular elephant shrew, which has small eyes and ears, a four-toed elephant shrew has broad, upstanding ears and large eyes. The elephant shrew generally varies in size from about . However, the body length of the four-toed elephant shrew is less variable, . Similarly, the tail length of the regular elephant shrew is ,
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Long-nosed caenolestid


The long-nosed caenolestid ("Rhyncholestes raphanurus"), also known as the Chilean shrew opossum or long-nosed shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum that occurs in temperate forests of Argentina and southern Chile. It was first described by American zoologist Wilfred Hudson Osgood in 1924. The long-nosed caenolestid resembles "Caenolestes" species in morphology. It is characterized by a long, pointed snout, small eyes and ears, and one claw on a digit of each of the thin limbs. Little is known of its
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Mount Mazama


Crater Lake National Park. Opossum species such as the Virginia opossum can be found infrequently, while shrew and mole species in the park area include marsh shrews, Pacific shrews, American water shrews, fog shrews, Trowbridge's shrews, vagrant shrews, American shrew moles, and broad-footed moles. Bats frequently sighted within the park area include the little brown bat, hoary bat, and big brown bat, while the California myotis, silver-haired bat, Yuma myotis, long-eared myotis, long-legged myotis
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Northern broad-nosed bat


The northern broad-nosed bat – Scotorepens sanborni – is a species of the vespertilionid family of microbats. It can be found in northern Australia, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea. The species was first described by Ellis Le Geyt Troughton in 1937, allying to a genus "Scoteinus". The taxon was assigned to the rank of subspecies, as "Scotorepens balstoni sanborni", but recognised as a species following a revision by Darrell Kitchener. The type locality in the Milne Bay region of Papua New Guinea.
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List of endemic mammals of Sri Lanka


"Srilankamys", of Sri Lanka are monotypic. The endemic status of two Sri Lankan shrews has undergone changes as they have been reported in India recently. The Kelaart's long-clawed shrew ("Feroculus feroculus") and the Sri Lanka highland shrew ("Suncus montanus") were recorded from southern India. At the same time taxonomic revisions have indicated that the flame-striped jungle squirrel ("Funambulus layardi"), the red slender loris ("Loris tardigradus") and two species of mouse deer,
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Onychophora


within the feet: On each foot is a pair of retractable, hardened (sclerotised) chitin claws, which give the taxon its scientific name: Onychophora is derived from the Greek "onyches", "claws"; and "pherein", "to carry". At the base of the claws are three to six spiny "cushions" on which the leg sits in its resting position and on which the animal walks over smooth substrates. The claws are used mainly to gain a firm foothold on uneven terrain. Each
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Soricomorpha


Soricomorpha ("shrew-form") is a formerly used taxon within the class of mammals. In the past it formed a significant group within the former order Insectivora. However, Insectivora was shown to be polyphyletic and various new orders were split off from it, including Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews), and Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs and gymnures), with the four remaining extant and recent families of Soricomorpha shown here then being treated as a separate order. Insectivora was left empty and disbanded
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Amblysomus


disputed ordinal position of the Chrysochloridae.” Not so long ago, there was a lot of uncertainty regarding how clades of living mammals were interrelated. Many mammalian systematists believed that golden moles (Chrysochloridae) were “insectivorans” along with shrews and hedgehogs. It appears in most studies as the sister taxon to Tenrecidae-Chrysochloridae-Macroscelididae, but has also been placed as sister taxon to Chrysochloridae, Tenrecidae, or to a macroscelidid-chrysochlorid clade. Relatedly, tenrecids and chrysochlorids are generally reconstructed as sister taxa, except for those
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Geoxus valdivianus


Geoxus valdivianus, also known as the long-clawed mole mouse or Valdivian long-clawed akodont, is a species of rodent in the tribe Abrotrichini of family Cricetidae found in the Valdivian temperate rain forests and Magellanic subpolar forests of Argentina and Chile. It is one of two species in the genus Geoxus. The long-clawed mole mouse is a small shrew-like mammal with a short tail and a total length of about . The body is spindle-shaped, enabling this mouse to move and turn in confined spaces.
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Education in Mexico


envisioned by Porfirian elites, quite a number of school teachers were active in opposing the Díaz regime and participated in the Mexican Revolution, including Pascual Orozco and Plutarco Elías Calles. Women school teachers were important in the nascent women's rights movement, such as Rita Cetina Gutiérrez and Dolores Jiménez y Muro. Following the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), the government made a major commitment to public education under its control. Centralization of education was via the federal Ministry of Education ("Secretaria de Educación Pública" or SEP)
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Ornate shrew


Least Concern". The rationale cited is the broad geographic range of distribution and a population stable enough that listing the animal as threatened would not be appropriate. However, they note that geographically restricted groups on the Baja Peninsula may be vulnerable due to habitat loss from human activity and other environmental stresses. The tule shrew, a subspecies of the ornate shrew, is recently extinct. The Government of Mexico has enacted special legal protections for ornate shrews. There are protected areas in both Mexico and the United States where ornate shrews are
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Aromobatidae


The Aromobatidae are a family of frogs native to Central and South America. They are sometimes referred to as cryptic forest frogs. They are the sister taxon of the Dendrobatidae, the poison dart frogs, but are not as toxic as most dendrobatids are. The Aromobatidae were separated from the Dendrobatidae only in 2006, and some sources continue to treat these frogs as part of the Dendrobatidae. However, their position as the sister taxon is well supported, and the question is primarily about whether they should be ranked as a family or
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Sand cat


a broad, flat appearance to the head. The ears are tawny at the base and tipped with black, and more pointed than those of the Pallas's cat ("Otocolobus manul"). In Central Asia, the sand cat's winter coat is very long and thick, with hairs reaching up to in length. The sand cat’s claws on the forelimbs are short and very sharp, and claws on the hind feet are small and blunt. The undersides of its paws are protected from extreme temperatures by a thick
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Silky anteater


the latter being much the larger. The fourth toe is very small, and lacks a claw, while the other two toes are vestigial or absent, and are not visible externally. The hind feet have four toes of equal length, each with long claws, and a vestigial hallux that is not externally visible. The ribs are broad and flat, overlapping to form an internal armoured casing that protects the chest. They have partially prehensile tails. Silky anteaters are found from Oaxaca and southern Veracruz in Mexico, through Central America
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Erinaceidae


of the order Insectivora, but that polyphyletic order is now considered defunct. Erinaceids are generally shrew-like in form, with long snouts and short tails. They are, however, much larger than shrews, ranging from in body length and in weight, in the case of the short-tailed gymnure, up to and in the moonrat. All but one species have five toes in each foot, in some cases with strong claws for digging, and they have large eyes and ears. Hedgehogs possess hair modified into sharp
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Mexico City


the British magazine "Restaurant", Mexico City ranked with the Mexican avant-garde restaurant Pujol (owned by Mexican chef Enrique Olvera) at 20th best. Also notable is the Basque-Mexican fusion restaurant Biko (run and co-owned by Bruno Oteiza and Mikel Alonso), which placed outside the list at 59th, but in previous years has ranked within the top 50. Mexico's award-winning wines are offered at many restaurants, and the city offers unique experiences for tasting the regional spirits, with broad selections
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Taxonomic rank


not to say that a taxon at any other rank may not be sharply defined, or that any species is guaranteed to be sharply defined. It varies from case to case. Ideally, a taxon is intended to represent a clade, that is, the phylogeny of the organisms under discussion, but this is not a requirement. A classification in which all taxa have formal ranks cannot adequately reflect knowledge about phylogeny. Since taxon names are dependent on ranks in traditional Linnaean systems of classification, taxa without ranks cannot be
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Tamaulipan matorral


and the mammals include Mexican prairie dog, Saussure's shrew, yellow-faced pocket gopher, Allen's squirrel, collared peccary and coyote. The Tamaulipan matorral extends along the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental range in northeastern Mexico, extending from central Tamaulipas state across central Nuevo León. The ecoregion covers an area of . The humid Veracruz moist forests lie to the southeast, on the Gulf Coastal Plain of southern Tamaulipas and Veracruz states; the Tamaulipan mezquital lies in the Rio Grande lowlands to the east and northeast. The
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Asian house shrew


, and throughout Iran and Arabia to Egypt and Pakistan also. The house shrew has a uniform, short, dense fur of mid-grey to brownish-grey color. The tail is thick at the base and a bit narrower at the tip, and is covered with a few long, bristle-like hairs that are thinly scattered. They have short legs with five clawed toes. They have small external ears and an elongated snout. They also emit a strong odor of musk, derived from musk glands that are sometimes
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Southern short-tailed shrew


are adapted for digging, with five toes ending in sharp, curved claws. The fur is slate gray, being paler on the underparts. The southern short-tailed shrew is found in the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia to eastern Texas, and in the Mississippi valley as far as southern Illinois. Within this region, it is found primarily in pine forests. However, these range from dry to wet and even swampy habitats, as well as disturbed forests and abandoned agricultural land. There are two recognised subspecies:
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Name-bearing type


for example, the Central American rodent tribe Nyctomyini has "Nyctomys" as its type genus and its name consists of the stem of the type genus, Nyctomy-, and the appropriate ending for a tribe, -ini. "Genus group" ranks consist of the genus and subgenus. The name-bearing type for a genus-group taxon is the type species, which must be one of the species included when that taxon ("genus" hereafter for brevity) was first formally named or, when no species were included when
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Cyber (Marvel Comics)


's magnetic powers. He manages to poison Strong Guy with his claws, and attempts to ransom the antidote in exchange for Shrew. However, Strong Guy is saved due to the scientific resources of the United States government. In a later battle in a subway train station, Shrew manages to push Cyber into the path of an oncoming train driven by X-Factor's leader Val Cooper, and he disappeared. He next surfaces on the distant island of Koma Koi as an agent for the mysterious death-cult known as The
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List of mammals of Vietnam


shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater species. The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises
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List of mammals of Sierra Leone


. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater species. The order Cetacea includes whales,
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List of mammals of Senegal


gymnures. The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout
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List of mammals of Pakistan


easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in
21788902
List of mammals of Nepal


physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long
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List of mammals of Guinea


. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater species. The order Cetacea includes whales,
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List of mammals of Guinea-Bissau


large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater species. The order Cetacea includes
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List of mammals of Ghana


"shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater species. The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and
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List of mammals of the Gambia


. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater species. The order Cetacea includes whales,
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List of mammals of Botswana


by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other
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Sulawesi shrew


assemblage of shrews endemic to northern and central Sulawesi which also includes the Sulawesi white-handed shrew ("Crocidura rhoditis"), the black-footed shrew ("Crocidura nigripes"), the elongated shrew ("Crocidura elongata") and the mossy forest shrew ("Crocidura musseri"). "Crocidura lea" is the smallest of this assemblage and on Sulawesi, only the Sulawesi tiny shrew ("Crocidura levicula") is smaller, and it is native to eastern Sulawesi. The Sulawesi shrew is one of
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Preble's shrew


known to live in Western North America, from the Columbia Plateau to the northern Great Plains. Specimens have been found in northeastern California, northern Nevada, central and eastern Oregon, southeast Washington, western Idaho, all of Montana, western Wyoming, central Colorado and north of the south shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Shrew fossils have even been found as far south as New Mexico. In Canada, the shrew can be found in south-central British Columbia. The Preble’s Shrew typically ranges in elevation from
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Black-footed shrew


. "Crocidura nigripes" is part of an assemblage of shrews endemic to northern and central Sulawesi which also includes the Sulawesi white-handed shrew ("Crocidura rhoditis"), the Sulawesi shrew ("Crocidura lea"), the elongated shrew ("Crocidura elongata") and the mossy forest shrew ("Crocidura musseri"). The Sulawesi black-footed shrew is a small species of white-toothed shrew; it lacks the deposits of iron in the enamel of the teeth which is seen in the red-
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Eutriconodonta


Priacodon" and "Trioracodon" ranked somewhere in between. Eutriconodonts are often among the largest mammals in Mesozoic faunal assemblages, displaying a broad size range from small shrew-like insectivores to large forms like "Repenomamus", "Gobiconodon", "Triconodon" and "Jugulator". They were among the first mammals to be specialised for vertebrate prey, and likely occupied the highest trophic levels among mammals in their faunal communities. Several forms like "Gobiconodon" and "Repenomamus" show evidence of scavenging, being among the few
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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Sulawesi white-handed shrew


North Sulawesi. "Crocidura rhoditis" is part of an assemblage of shrews endemic to northern and central Sulawesi which also includes the Sulawesi shrew ("Crocidura lea"), the black-footed shrew ("Crocidura nigripes"), the elongated shrew ("Crocidura elongata") and the mossy forest shrew ("Crocidura musseri"). The Sulawesi white-handed shrew is a small species of white-toothed shrew; it lacks the deposits of iron in the enamel of the teeth which is seen in the red
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Large-toothed shrew


12,000 km², "S. macrodon" is endemic to Mexico and occupies mossy banks, moist cloud forest, and dense oak forests, where it may live under rocks or logs, beside streams, and in weedy vegetation. Mexican large-toothed shrews inhabit pine-oak, coniferous, and tropical forest growing inside the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TVB) within the southernmost Sierra Nevada. This natural landmark is found inside the Gulf of Mexico, and is a recognized hotspot for diversity, endemicity, and geographic transition of living
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List of mammals of Sudan


spines while gymnures look more like large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater
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List of mammals of Malaysia


shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangolins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen
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List of mammals of Malawi


spines while gymnures look more like large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises the eight species of pangolin. Pangoblins are anteaters and have the powerful claws, elongated snout and long tongue seen in the other unrelated anteater
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List of mammals of Ethiopia


spines while gymnures look more like large rats. The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. The order Philodota comprises eight pangolin species, which feed on ants and have powerful claws, an elongated snout and a long tongue. There are over 260 species
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Euoplocephalus


is in fact a valid taxon, and identified unique characteristics that differentiated it from "Euoplocephalus", including its triangular claws. Victoria Arbour (2010) argued that "Anodontosaurus" (known from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation) is distinct from "Euoplocephalus" and is also a valid taxon; according to Arbour, "Anodontosaurus" differs from "Euoplocephalus" in distinctive skull and cervical half ring ornamentation, as well as tail club morphology, including the presence of pointed, triangular knob osteoderms in "Anodontosaurus". Furthermore, Arbour
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The Taming of the Shrew


in "The Shrew", there is only eleven lines of romance between Lucentio and Bianca, but in "A Shrew", there is an entire scene between Kate's two sisters and their lovers. This, he argues, is evidence of an adaptation rather than a faulty report; Miller believes the compiler "appears to have wished to make the play shorter, more of a romantic comedy full of wooing and glamorous rhetoric, and to add more obvious, broad comedy." H.J. Oliver argues the version of the play
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Jeholopterus


a wingspan of ninety centimetres. The legs are short but robust. The toes bear well-developed curved claws, but these are not as long as the hand claws. The fifth toe is elongated, according to the authors supporting a membrane between the legs, the uropatagium. "Jeholopterus" was by the authors assigned to the Anurognathidae. An analysis by Lü Junchang in 2006 resolved its position as being the sister taxon of "Batrachognathus". Kellner et al. 2009 proposed Batrachognathinae for the clade comprising these two genera and
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Radio Educación


SEP to enter radio. On November 21, 1922, Vasconcelos's deputy secretary, Francisco Figueroa, asked President Álvaro Obregón for permission to invest in a 250-watt transmitter and 50 receivers. The federal government initially denied the SEP because it was trying to work with radiotelephone operators, but interest in Mexican radio grew. On June 7, 1923, General Amado Aguirre set guidelines for radio stations, and on July 15, 1924, 13 days after Vasconcelos stepped down, the SEP got its radio station. A transmitter was bought from
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Bates's shrew


), or reported as Wimmer's shrew ("Crocidura wimmeri"). Its karyotype is 2n=50, FN-76, which is identical to the Nigerian shrew ("Crocidura nigeriae"), and the species complex is in need of a thorough revision. The Bates's shrew is native to tropical central Africa where its range extends from southern Cameroon to most of Gabon apart from the south. It has also been reported from the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and nearby parts of the Republic of Congo, but these sightings are
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Large-toothed shrew


and feeds on small arthropods, arachnids, and some plant material. The Mexican large-toothed shrew is rather large with a total length of 11.8 cm or more and a hind foot of 1.5 cm. Its pelage is a comparatively light (to other shrews in the family) mixed russet and black, with chamois colored ventral parts. The skull of "S. macrodon" is large and heavy with bulky teeth and reinforced margins of the anterior nostrils. "S. macrodon" is part of the Beringean clade, one of two
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Small-eared shrew


in Central America; the North American least shrew, "C. parva", is the only species found north of Mexico. The genus occurs as far south as northern Peru and as far east as western Venezuela in South America. It is the only soricomorph genus found south of Guatemala. The and restricted northern distribution of shrews in South America implies that the group invaded the continent relatively recently from Central America, where they are , presumably as part of the Great American Interchange. However, shrews have no fossil record in South
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Pygmy salamander


species "Desmognathus wrighti" described by King more accurately describes the lineage from the southern part of the French Broad River and the morphological descriptions described on this page. The new species "Desmognathus organi", the Northern pygmy salamander, is a sister taxon to "D. wrighti". Differences of "D. organi" from its sister taxon includes a slightly larger body length, wider heads, and the ventral gold iridophore patterns are absent. Also, "D. organi" is found in higher elevations north of the French Broad River
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Form (botany)


In botanical nomenclature, a form ("forma", plural "formae") is one of the "secondary" taxonomic ranks, below that of variety, which in turn is below that of species; it is an infraspecific taxon. If more than three ranks are listed in describing a taxon, the "classification" is being specified, but only three parts make up the "name" of the taxon: a genus name, a specific epithet, and an infraspecific epithet. The abbreviation "f." or the
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Ornate shrew


on Ornate shrew populations, it has been shown that there are three main genetic subdivisions: The Southern, Central and Northern. These three genetic subdivisions of Ornate shrew arose from populations of Ornate shrews getting geographically isolated from other populations. Ornate shrews are small; they weigh on average . The total length of the animal averages with a hind foot measuring . The tail is relatively short, measuring . The shrew molts, with a change in fur coloring at different times of year. The coat is overall drab, brown on the
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Infraspecific name


In botany, an infraspecific name is the scientific name for any taxon below the rank of species, i.e. an infraspecific taxon. (A "taxon", plural "taxa", is a group of organisms to be given a particular name.) The scientific names of botanical taxa are regulated by the "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants" (ICN). This specifies a 'three part name' for infraspecific taxa, plus a 'connecting term' to indicate the rank of the name
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Nepenthes alata


Nepenthes alata" in this broad sense ("sensu lato") is one of the easiest and most popular "Nepenthes" in cultivation. In 2013, "N. alata" was redelimited by Martin Cheek and Matthew Jebb to encompass only those populations from northern and central Luzon with conspicuously hairy pitchers (a taxon known in horticultural circles as the "hairy "N. alata""). Cheek and Jebb's "N. alata" "sensu stricto" has an altitudinal distribution of and above. Under this interpretation, the more
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Ornate shrew


dwindled sharply. These areas include coastal wetlands, salt marshes, and freshwater swamps. Ornate shrews are also less common or have been eliminated from areas of intensive agriculture in central California. The breeding period of the ornate shrew starts in late February and ends in late September or October. Shrews of similar size have a gestation period around 21 days, but no definitive information on the ornate shrew is available. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) lists the conservation status of the ornate shrew as "
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Clark's grebe


taxon, believing that the synonymy was incorrect, and thus he moved Lawrence's "Podiceps clarkii" to "Aechmophorus clarkii", and restricted the distribution of this taxon to Mexico, rejecting Lawrence's identification of the larger-sized, pale-colored birds from California and elsewhere in the US and Canada as this taxon. His studies showed that there was little overlap in size measurements between Mexican and northern populations -irrespective of coloration; as such Dickerman's 1963 view was that "A. clarckii" are smaller grebes restricted to Mexico
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Cautleya


one side. The bases of the petals are fused to form a tube as long as or longer than the calyx. At the end of this tube the three petals form separate lobes: the central lobe is upright and narrower than the two side lobes. Inside the petal tube there are three petal-like structures (formed from staminodes). The side staminodes are upright. The broad central lip or labellum is bent downwards. It has a narrowed section (claw) at its base which is joined to the side lobes
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Crocidura hikmiya


Crocidura hikmiya (Sinharaja shrew or Sri Lankan rain forest shrew) is a species of shrew described from the rainforests of Sri Lanka, based on both morphological and molecular data. Its closest sister species is the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew, another Sri Lankan crocidurine shrew restricted to the high-elevation habitats of the Central Highlands. "C. hikmiya" has a shorter tail than the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew; most of the other characteristics that distinguish the two species are osteological in nature . The specific epithet "hikmiya
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Northern short-tailed shrew


The "B. b. brevicauda" subspecies appeared later. This shrew is found throughout central and eastern North America, from southern Saskatchewan to Atlantic Canada and south to northern Arkansas and Georgia. It is probably the most common shrew in the Great Lakes region. Population densities usually range from five to 30 shrews per hectare (two to 12 per acre), but rarely exceed 200/ha (80/ac). The typical home range of a shrew is 2.5 ha, and may overlap slightly with the ranges of other shrews
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Peltandra virginica


on the Red List of Threatened Species 2016, "P. virginica" is a taxon of Least Concern, this is because of its broad range in eastern and central North America. In some areas within the range of "P. virginica" the populations are diminishing. It has also been found in California. While common in most of its range, "P. virginica" is listed as Endangered in Iowa. In the pistillate stage the spadix of "P. virginica" is entirely covered by the spathe, not allowing insects to pollinate
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Taxon


In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from "taxonomy") is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and given a particular ranking, especially if and when it is accepted or becomes established. It is not uncommon, however, for taxonomists to remain at odds over what belongs to a taxon and the criteria used for inclusion. If a taxon is given
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Tokyo International Players


: "A Lie in the Mind" by Sam Shepard, directed by Walter Roberts May 1996: "Zigger Zagger" by Peter Terson, directed by Malcolm Duff Sep 1996: "I Hate Hamlet" by Paul Rudnick, directed by Hank Roberts Nov 1996: "Deathtrap" by Ira Levin, directed by Judy Fisher Feb 1997: "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, directed by Malcolm Duff Apr 1997: "If We Are Women" by Joanna McClelland Glass, directed by Virginia Kouyoumdjian (workshop)
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Rhinophrynidae


The Rhinophrynidae are a family of frogs containing one extant genus, the monotypic "Rhinophrynus", and a number of fossil genera. The family is sometimes known as the Mexican burrowing toads or simply burrowing toads. "Rhinophrynus" occurs in the Central America north from Costa Rica to Mexico and Texas. Fossil finds of Rhinophrynidae come from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. "Rhinophrynus" is a burrowing ant and termite eater. The Rhinophrynidae are the sister taxon of the Pipidae. The clade formed by these two genera
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Giant otter shrew


The giant otter shrew ("Potamogale velox") is a semiaquatic, carnivorous afrotherian mammal. It is found in the main rainforest block of central Africa from Nigeria to Zambia, with a few isolated populations in Kenya and Uganda. It lives in streams, wetlands and slow flowing larger rivers. It is monotypic in the genus "Potamogale". Otter shrews are most closely related to the tenrecs of Madagascar. Contrary to its name, the giant otter shrew is not a true shrew (Soricidae). The common name refers
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Name-bearing type


group" ranks consist of just the species and subspecies. (Note: a "species group" defined as a taxon, rather than as a category of ranks, has an unofficial rank, one of several such ranks between the subgenus and species levels sometimes used by zoologists in taxa with many species; see Taxonomic rank.) The name-bearing type of a species-group taxon (hereafter "species" for brevity) is an actual specimen or set of specimens; the "Code" recommends that great care should
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Cortinarius archeri


Forest in the Mount Lofty Ranges. He distinguished it from "C. archeri" by its smaller spores (9–10 x 4.5–5.5 μm) and mushrooms. This taxon is poorly known and it is unclear whether it is distinct from "C. archeri". The cap is up to broad, initially convex with strongly incurved margins before flattening out with age. The centre of the cap may have a central boss. The cap colour is deep violet at first and then becomes violet-brown with age, glutinous, and smooth. The
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Cosmos pacificus


Cosmos pacificus is a Mexican species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to southwestern and west-central Mexico from Sinaloa to Chiapas. "Cosmos pacificus" is a branching annual up to 200 cm (80 inches) tall. Leaves and highly lobed and dissected. The plant produces many flower heads, each with pink to lavender ray florets and yellow disc florets. The oldest name for the taxon is "Cosmos caudatus" var. "exaristatus", coined by Earl Edward Sherff in 1964. In elevating the
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Fauna of the United States


species of squirrels in the central parts of the U.S., including the fox squirrel, eastern gray squirrel, Franklin's ground squirrel, southern flying squirrel, and the thirteen-lined ground squirrel. Voles include the prairie vole, woodland vole and the meadow vole. The plains pocket gopher lives throughout the Great Plains. Shrews include the cinereus shrew, southeastern shrew, North American least shrew, and the Elliot's short-tailed shrew. In the Appalachian Mountains and the Eastern United States are many animals that live in forested habitats
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Ptolemaiida


with long canines of "Ptolemaia" and "Qarunavus" were found, they were then thought to be hyaenodontids, or giant, carnivorous relatives of the pantolestid, "Palaeosinopa", and of modern shrews The family Ptolemaiidae was elevated to order level in 1995, although some experts later placed the Ptolemaiidae within the pantolestids. Recently, Ptolemaiida has been placed within Afrotheria on the basis of paleobiology, as the taxon was endemic to Africa, and because of some similarities in the anatomical features of the skull in common with aardvarks.
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Sulawesi shrew


the smallest of the white-toothed shrews; it lacks the deposits of iron in the enamel of the teeth which is seen in the red-toothed shrews. The dorsal pelage is short and velvety, being greyish-brown or reddish-brown and the underside is paler. The Sulawesi shrew is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi where it is found in the central and northern parts of the island, at altitudes of up to about . Its typical habitat is primary tropical forests, but it seems able to survive in
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Botanical nomenclature


taxon (see correct name) and if a new name may (or must) be coined. Plant taxonomy is an empirical science, a science that determines what constitutes a particular taxon (taxonomic grouping, plural: taxa): e.g. "What plants belong to this species?" and "What species belong to this genus?". The definition of the limits of a taxon is called its 'circumscription'. For a particular taxon, if two taxonomists agree exactly on its circumscription, rank and position (i.e. the
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Bicolored shrew


The bicolored shrew or bicoloured white-toothed shrew ("Crocidura leucodon") is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in eastern, central and southern Europe and in western Asia. It is a nocturnal species and feeds on insects and other small creatures. Several litters of young are born during the warmer months of the year in a nest of dry grasses in a concealed location. The bicoloured white-toothed shrew has a head and body length of and a tail length of . It weighs about
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Hydnum repandum


taxon may currently be undergoing intensive speciation. A comprehensive genetic study published in 2016 of members of the genus worldwide found that there are at least four species in the broad concept of "H. repandum": two species from southern China, one from Europe and eastern North America, and "H. repandum" itself from Europe, western North America, and northern (and alpine southwestern) China and Japan. Although it is missing from Central America, genetic material has been recovered from Venezuela from the tree "Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea",
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Universidad Azteca


in Austria, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, India. Universidad Azteca is affiliated with the "Centro de Estudios Superiores Azteca". The private university was established in 1984 and recognized by the federal Secretary of Public Education (SEP) of the United States of Mexico in 1987. The university is accredited by the "Reconocimiento de Validez Oficial de Estudios" (RVOE) and the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) to award graduate and postgraduate degrees. It is listed with the official Mexican government cultural and scientific information exchange network
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Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara


Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Medical Education (COMAEM) the U.S. Department of Education has determined that COMAEM's (Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Medical Education) is comparable to the LCME process, Mexican republic senate recognition, The Institute for International Medical Education (IIME), Mexican Federal Secretary of Public Education (SEP),National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA), Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), Consejo para la Acreditación de la Educación Superior (COPAES), Foundation for Advancement of International Medical
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Albionbaataridae


Albionbaataridae is a family of small, extinct mammals within the order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. These herbivores lived their obscure lives during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs." They were among the more derived representatives of the informal suborder "Plagiaulacida". The taxon Albionbaataridae was named by Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Ensom P.C. in 1994. Members of Albionbaataridae were "Shrew-sized taxa that differ from all other multituberculates in having relatively
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Fauna of Finland


Finland. The common rabbit spread there from central Europe. It is now found in practically all of Europe. The other two species are hares. There are 10 species of insectivore living in Finland. Eight of the ten are shrews, from the common shrew to the Eurasian water shrew. Shrews are very common in the forests of Finland. A species of mole and one of hedgehog are the remaining insectivores. About 13 kinds of bat live in Finland. Around 15 species of carnivore are found in Finland. Many of the
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Ugandan musk shrew


in both primary and secondary forest, as well as in single species "Gilbertiodendron dewevrei" forest. This shrew seems to favour fairly open areas with little undergrowth. This shrew is poorly known and its precise range, natural history and the threats it faces are unknown. In a mixed forest in Salo, in the Central African Republic, it formed about one third of all shrews caught in pitfall traps, and in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, it was identified in 2.3% of scats left by small carnivores. Because
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Alpine shrew


and it has a long pointed snout, small black eyes and rounded pink ears. Its legs and feet are white and the underside of its hairy tail is yellowish. Juveniles are somewhat paler than adults. It shares its range with the common shrew "Sorex araneus" and the Eurasian pygmy shrew "Sorex minutus" but is distinguishable from these by its darker fur and longer tail. The Alpine shrew is found in the mountains and uplands of Central and Eastern Europe and parts of France. Its range includes the Alps, the
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Antechinus


Antechinus // ('ant-echinus') is a genus of small dasyurid marsupial endemic to Australia. They resemble mice with the bristly fur of shrews. They are sometimes also called broad-footed marsupial mice, pouched mice, route rat and/or Antechinus shrews. However, these common names are considered either regional or archaic and the modern common name for the animals is Antechinus. "Antechinus" have short fur and are generally greyish or brownish in colour, this varies with species. The fur is dense and generally soft.
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Black-footed ferret


slender body with black outlines such as the feet, ears, parts of the face and its tail. The forehead is arched and broad, and the muzzle is short. It has few whiskers, and its ears are triangular, short, erect and broad at the base. The neck is long and the legs short and stout. The toes are armed with sharp, very slightly arched claws. The feet on both surfaces are covered in hair, even to the soles, thus concealing the claws. It combines several physical
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Miguel Torruco Marqués


of the Organization of American States (OAS), and pursued graduate Top Management of Public Enterprises at the (INAP) and Teaching a higher level, given by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP). He holds a degree in hotel and restaurant management by the Mexican School of Tourism, which reached degree with the thesis titled "Mexican Association of Hotels and Motels as a fundamental tool for the consolidation of the sector." In academia he served as professor and deputy director of the Mexican School of Tourism. A short
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Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters


continued to operate as such until 1917. The property became state property and the complex has housed a number of institutions such as the Jurisprudence School, the National Girls’ School and others until after the Mexican Revolution. From 1911 and 1922, the new Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), took over the building at the corner of San Ildefonso and Rep. de Argentina and extensively remodeled it, hiring engineer Federico Méndez Rivas. Since that time, the SEP has taken over a number of other buildings in the city to house
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Education in Mexico


In 1992, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who became president in the disputed 1988 elections, instituted changes in the organization of Mexico's educational system. Adopting neoliberal economic policies to promote development, Salinas saw education as a key factor. In an accord with the SNTE, education was decentralized from its control by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) and came under the control of Mexican state government. Curriculum reform was also undertaken by the SEP, which included the creation of new textbooks. Protests resulted in the government's withdrawing
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Fraser's musk shrew


is given as the type locality. Fraser's musk shrew is native to tropical western and central Africa. Its range extends from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia through Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria to Cameroon. Its range may extend further to the east than Cameroon because there is some confusion between its range and that of the very similar Bates's shrew ("Crocidura batesi"), a species which is found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Fraser's musk shrew is also present on
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North American least shrew


they will weigh 4-5 g and weaning will begin. The North American least shrew rarely lives more than a year. Its natural predators are owls, hawks, the red fox, the raccoon, skunks, and snakes. The North American least shrew will try to defend itself with its venomous saliva. Evolutionary analysis seems to show the shrews evolved from the ancestor "Crocidosorex" in Europe and crossed over into the Nearctic, consisting of North and Central America, via the Bering Strait (above sea level at the time
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