Blarinella quadraticauda Milne-Edwards, 1872

Naven Kumar, R K, Sivalingam, Azhagu Madhavan, Alex, Arockia & Brahma, Neha, 2021, Shrews (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from Mt. Tay Con Linh, Ha Giang Province, northeast Vietnam, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 47 (1), pp. 43-53 : 50

Blarinella quadraticauda Milne-Edwards, 1872

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).