Neotetracus
Appearance
Neotetracus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | Erinaceidae |
Subfamily: | Galericinae |
Genus: | Neotetracus Trouessart, 1909 |
Type species | |
Neotetracus sinensis Trouessart, 1909
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Species | |
Neotetracus is a genus of gymnure that contains a single extant species, the shrew gymnure (Neotetracus sinensis) of China and Southeast Asia.
Another fossil species is also known from the Miocene of Thailand, Neotetracus butleri.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Mein, P.; Ginsburg, L. (1997). "Les mammifères du gisement miocène inférieur de Li Mae Long, Thaïlande : systématique, biostratigraphie et paléoenvironnement". Geodiversitas. 19 (4): 783–844.
- ^ Wilson, Don E. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 219.