Anourosorex assamensis Anderson 1875

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Soricomorpha, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 220-311 : 267

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Anourosorex assamensis Anderson 1875
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Anourosorex assamensis Anderson 1875 View in CoL

Anourosorex assamensis Anderson 1875 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 16: 282.

Type Locality: Assam, Subsasugu.

Vernacular Names: Assam Mole Shrew.

Distribution: NE India (Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland).

Discussion: Blanford (1888) and Allen (1938) considered A. assamensis as a species distinct from A. squamipes . Mandal and Das (1969) reported on a series of mole shrews from Assam and noted their larger size in comparison to the Chinese population, an observation corroborated by my study of specimens in the FMNH. These differences were neatly shown in a principal component analysis performed by Motokawa and Lin (2002). Records from Meghalaya and Nagaland are based on specimens in the FMNH. It is not known whether the ranges of A. assamensis and A. squamipes overlap in S Assam or Manipur, but the occurrence of the latter in Mizoram ( Mandal et al., 1995) may indicate the presence of a contact zone.

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Soricidae

Genus

Anourosorex

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Anourosorex assamensis Anderson 1875

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Anourosorex assamensis

Anderson 1875: 282
1875
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