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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Soricidae
--> SUBFAMILY Soricinae
--> TRIBE Nectogalini
--> GENUS Nectogale
SPECIES Nectogale elegans
| Author: | Milne-Edwards, 1870. | | Citation: | C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 70: 341. | | Common Name: | Elegant Water Shrew | | Type Locality: | China, Sichuan, Moupin (= Baoxing). | | 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). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | 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 (1993b). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
sikhimensis de Winton, 1899
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