Chimarrogale Anderson, 1877

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 107

Chimarrogale Anderson, 1877 . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 46:262.

TYPE SPECIES: Crossopus himalayicus Gray, 1842.

SYNONYMS: Chimmarogale, Crossogale .

COMMENTS: Tribe Neomyini ; see Repenning (1967:61). Because of the presence of white teeth the genus was occasionally included in subfamily Crocidurinae , but since Repenning (1967), overwhelming evidence has been accumulated showing that Chimarrogale is a soricine shrew ( Vogel and Besancon, 1979; Mori et al., 1991). Gureev (1971:226) included Chimarrogale in his subtribe Nectogalina within the Blarinini, while Reumer (1984:14) included it in the tribe Soriculini; see comments under genus Neomys . Includes Crossogale; see Harrison (1958), who also revised the genus. His arrangement was found to be more realistic than the present practice of lumping all forms together in one or two species.