Shrew Gymnure
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The Shrew Gymnure or Shrew Hedgehog (Neotetracus sinensis) is a species of mammal
in the Erinaceidae
family. It is found in China
, Myanmar
, and Vietnam
.
It is the only species in the genus Neotetracus.
Mammal
Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...
in the Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae is the only living family in the order Erinaceomorpha, which has recently been subsumed with Soricomorpha into the order Eulipotyphla...
family. It is found in China
China
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, Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, and Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
.
It is the only species in the genus Neotetracus.
Source
- Insectivore Specialist Group 1996. Hylomys sinensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.