Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 110

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Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870 . C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 70:341.

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).

SYNONYMS: sikhimensis.

COMMENTS: Includes sikhimensis, see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Hoffmann (1987). Species highly adapted for a semi-aquatic life ( Hutterer, 1985).