Chimarrogale varennei
O. Thomas, 1927
Vietnamese 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
Authority citation
Thomas, O. 1927-04. The Delacour Exploration of French Indo-China.—Mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1927:41-58.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1927.tb02245.xOriginal name as described
Chimarrogale varennei
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1926.10.4.44
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/62f2b79e-4584-4689-9df3-0936e6ab7ac8Type locality
Dakto, Annam, Indo-China.
Biogeographic realm
Indomalaya
Country distribution
Vietnam
Taxonomy notes
split from C. himalayica
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
Not Evaluated
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