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--> FAMILY Erinaceidae
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--> GENUS Neotetracus
SPECIES Neotetracus sinensis
| Author: | Trouessart, 1909. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4: 390. | | Common Name: | Shrew Gymnure | | Type Locality: | "Ta-tsien-lou, province of Se-tchouen (China Occidental) at an altitude of 2454 meters" [= Kangding, Sichuan Sheng, 30°07'N, 102°02'E]. | | Distribution: | S China in Sichuan and Yunnan, and adjacent parts of Burma and N Vietnam. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as Hylomys sinensis. | | Comments: | Corbet (1988:127) retained the genus Neotetracus for this species, as did Mein and Ginsburg (1997). In a comparative genetic study of six hedgehog genera by Bannikova et al. (2002), Neotetracus (and Hylomys) formed the most basal taxa in the dendrograms. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
cuttingi Anthony, 1941
fulvescens Osgood, 1932
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