The Hainan gymnure (Neohylomys hainanensis) or Hainan moonrat is a species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It was thought to be endemic to the island of Hainan, China, where it is threatened due to habitat loss, but in 2018 was found to also occur in, and be rather common, in Northern Vietnam.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Erinaceidae |
| Subfamily: | Galericinae |
| Genus: | Neohylomys Shaw and Wong, 1959 |
| Species: | N. hainanensis
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| Neohylomys hainanensis Shaw & Wong, 1959
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This gymnure is in the monotypic genus Neohylomys. Although previously considered part of the genus Hylomys, gene sequencing of a mitochondrial cytochrome b gene supports the idea that the species is sufficiently distantly related to comprise a genus of its own.[3]
Description
Small sized with a length of 15 cm – 16.2 cm. The tail is approximately 26.3% of head and body length. Hainan Gymnures have olive-brown fur with a longitudinal black line on its anterior midback.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Johnston, C.; Smith, A.T. (2016). "Neohylomys hainanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T10588A22326961. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T10588A22326961.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Rozhnov, Viatcheslav V.; Lebedev, Vladimir S.; Bannikova, Anna A.; Abramov, Alexei V. (2018-05-11). "A broadly distributed species instead of an insular endemic? A new find of the poorly known Hainan gymnure (Mammalia, Lipotyphla)". ZooKeys (795): 77–81. Bibcode:2018ZooK..795...77A. doi:10.3897/zookeys.795.28218. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6232251. PMID 30429659.
- ^ Li, Yuchun; Wu, Yi; Lin, Liang-Kong; Harada, Masashi; Motokawa, Masaharu (2008). "First karyological and molecular study of the Hainan gymnure Neohylomys hainanensis (Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae)". Mammalia. 72 (4): 344–346. doi:10.1515/MAMM.2008.037. S2CID 84478542.
- ^ Abramov, A. V., Bannikova, A. A., Lebedev, V. S., & Rozhnov, V. V. (2018). A broadly distributed species instead of an insular endemic? A new find of the poorly known Hainan gymnure (Mammalia, Lipotyphla). ZooKeys, 795, 77–81. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.795.28218
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