Chimarrogale himalayica
(J. E. Gray, 1842)
Himalayan Water Shrew
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Eulipotyphla |
Suborder | : Erinaceota |
Family | : Soricidae |
Subfamily | : Soricinae |
Tribe | : Nectogalini |
Genus | : Chimarrogale |
Subgenus | : Chimarrogale |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Gray, J.E. 1842-12-01. Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1)10(65):255-267.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2324285Original name as described
Crossopus Himalayicus
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1842.2.18.1
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/cd242f5c-c279-4549-8317-5fd9d8598d5eType locality
"India."
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic · Indomalaya
Country distribution
India · Nepal · Bhutan · China · Myanmar · Laos · Vietnam
Taxonomy notes
previously included C. leander and C. varennei
Taxonomy notes citation
Abramov, A. V., Bannikova, A. A., Lebedev, V. S., & Rozhnov, V. V. (2017). Revision of Chimarrogale (Lipotyphla: Soricidae) from Vietnam with comments on taxonomy and biogeography of Asiatic water shrews. Zootaxa, 4232(2), 216-230.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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