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).