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.

Original name as described

Crossopus Himalayicus

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1842.2.18.1

Type kind

holotype

Type 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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