Nectogale 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

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

TYPE SPECIES: Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870 .

COMMENTS: Subfamily Soricinae ; see Vogel and Besancon (1979); tribe Neomyini ; see Repenning (1967:45). Gureev (1971:226) placed Nectogale in a new subtribe Nectogalina within the Blarinini , a view not followed by other authors.