Nectogale elegans - #3187
Elegant Water Shrew
Specimen deposited in Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China, Yunnan province, Kunming). Formerly Soricomorpha.
Geographic 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).
Order/Family
Soricidae
Genus
Nectogale
Specific Epithet
elegans
Image Location
China, Yunnan province, Pu'er prefecture, Jingdong Li autonomous county, Wuliang Mountain
Image Date
8 March 2012
Photographer
K He