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--> GENUS Anourosorex
SPECIES Anourosorex squamipes
Author: | Milne-Edwards, 1872. | Citation: | Rech. Hist. Nat. Mamm.: 264. | Common Name: | Chinese Mole Shrew | Type Locality: | China, Sichuan Prov., probably Moupin (= Baoxing). | Distribution: | Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan (China); N and W Burma; E India (Mizoram); North Vietnam; Thailand. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Formerly also included assamensis, schmidi, and yamashinai as subspecies (see Petter, 1963b; Jameson and Jones, 1977; Motokawa and Lin, 2002), but these three are given species rank here. The Indian records are based on measurements of specimens from Mizoram provided by Mandal et al. (1995). |
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capito G. Allen, 1923 capnias G. Allen, 1923
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