Blarinella quadraticauda Milne-Edwards 1872
- Dataset
- Shrews (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from Mt. Tay Con Linh, Ha Giang Province, northeast Vietnam
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Soricomorpha
- family
- Soricidae
- genus
- Blarinella
- species
- Blarinella quadraticauda
discussion
Two specimens were collected from two trapping sites set at altitudes of 1500 – 1600 m and 1800 – 1900 m (Table 1). The specimens were collected from disturbed forest and the Chinese cardamom plantation. This species was formerly classified as B. griselda but is now regarded as B. quadraticauda (Bannikova et al., 2019) after taxonomic revisions of the genus Blarinella (He et al., 2018; Bannikova et al., 2019). Lunde et al. (2003) reported B. griselda from 1500 – 1600 m and 1700 m, thus the altitudinal range on Mt. Tay Con Linh is regarded as 1500 – 1900 m. Blarinella quadraticauda is distributed in central and southwestern China and northern Vietnam (Bannikova et al., 2019).