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The Himalayan shrew (''Soriculus nigrescens'') is found in
Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...
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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
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Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
, is currently the only species in the genus ''Soriculus'' within the tribe
Nectogalini Nectogalini is a tribe of Old World water shrews within the family Soricidae. As of late 2007, it consisted of six extant genera and 25 species, with some of the latter being further divided into subspecies. Adaptation to semiaquatic life M ...
, although the species ''
Chodsigoa ''Chodsigoa'' is a genus of shrews in the tribe Nectogalini. Species There are currently ten species classified under the genus ''Chodsigoa'': * Van Sung's shrew (''Chodsigoa caovansunga'') (Lunde, Musser and Son, 2003) *''? Chodsigoa hoffma ...
'' and ''
Episoriculus ''Episoriculus'' is a genus of shrew in the red-toothed shrew subfamily. Its common is brown-toothed shrew. It has been described as a subgenus to ''Soriculus'' in the past. The genus occurs at a number of locations in Asia, including Nepal and C ...
'', which occur in southeastern Asia, as well as those of the fossil European genus ''
Asoriculus ''Asoriculus'' is an extinct genus of terrestrial shrews in the subfamily Soricinae (red-toothed shrews) and tribe Nectogalini. The best known species, ''Asoriculus gibberodon'' was widespread in Europe from the Late Miocene to the Early Pleisto ...
'', were formerly included there.


References

*Hutterer, R. 2005. Order Soricomorpha. Pp. 220–311 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.)
Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. Mammals of Nepal Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Mammals described in 1842 {{redtoothed-shrew-stub