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Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards 1870
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Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards 1870
Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards 1870, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 70: 341.
Type Locality: China, Sichuan, Moupin (= Baoxing).
Vernacular Names: Elegant Water Shrew.
Synonyms: Nectogale sikhimensis de Winton 1899.
Distribution: Cold mountain streams across the Himalayas and in W and C China; Tibet (Xizang Aut. Region), Nepal, Sikkim (India), Bhutan, N Burma, and Yunnan, Sichuan and Shaanxi (China).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: A species highly adapted for a semi-aquatic life (Hutterer, 1985). Includes sikhimensis, see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Hoffmann (1987). Reviewed by Hutterer (1993 b).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, pp. 220-311 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 278, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Milne-Edwards
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Soricomorpha
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Nectogale
- Species
- elegans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Hutterer, R. 1985. Anatomical adaptations of shrews. Mammal Review, 15: 43 - 55.
- Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
- Hoffmann, R. S. 1987. A review of the systematics and distribution of Chinese red-toothed shrews (Mammalia: Soricinae). Acta Theriologica Sinica, 7: 100 - 139.
- Hutterer, R. 1993 b. Ein Lebensbild der tibetanischen Wasserspitzmaus (Nectogale elegans). Pp. 39 - 51, in Semiaquatische Saugetiere (M. Stubbe ed.). Wissenschaftliche Beitrage der Universitat Halle, Wittenberg. 468 pp.