Anourosorex squamipes Milne-Edwards 1872

Anourosorex squamipes Milne-Edwards 1872, Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammiferes: 264.

Type Locality: China, Sichuan Prov., probably Moupin (= Baoxing).

Vernacular Names: Chinese Mole Shrew.

Synonyms: Anourosorex capito G. Allen 1923; Anourosorex capnias G. Allen 1923 .

Distribution: Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan (China); N and W Burma; E India (Mizoram); North Vietnam; Thailand.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Formerly also included assamensis, schmidi, and yamashinai as subspecies (see Petter, 1963 b; Jameson and Jones, 1977; Motokawa and Lin, 2002), but these three are given species rank here. The Indian records are based on measurements of specimens from Mizoram provided by Mandal et al. (1995).