Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870
Milne-Edwards, A. (1870) Note sur quelques Mammiféres du Tibet oriental. Comptes rendus de l'Acadėmie des sciences Paris, 70: 341 [341–342].
Valid name: Nectogale elegans Milne-Edwards, 1870
Paratype: ZMB 4797, male, adult, skin, skull. Collected by Armand David from “Moupin” [Baoxing, Sichuan Province, western China], ex Museum Paris (MNHN).
Comments: The holotype of N. elegans is MNHN 1870-6 (Paris), collected from the same locality as the Berlin specimen. The ZMB specimen was presumably part of the type series housed in Paris.