Lamulate shrew
species of mammal
The lamulate shrew (Chodsigoa lamula) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to China.
Taxonomy
Chodsigoa lamula was first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1912, based on a specimen collected the year before by G. Fenwick Owen. The type locality was "40 miles south-east of Tao-chou" in Gansu, China, at an altitude of 9,500 feet (2,900 m). Later analysis by Allen (1938) considered it a subspecies of Chodsigoa hypsibia. It remained that way until Hoffman (1985) reclassified it yet again as a full species based on its smaller size and overlapping distribution with C. hypsibia. In the same work, he reanalyzed C. parva as a subspecies of C. lamula, though some later authors disagreed with this. A 2017 genetic analysis, which looked at one specimen of C. lamula, found that C. lamula was genetically similar to C. hypsibia, and concluded that they may be the same species.
Description
The lamulate shrew is very similar to Chodsigoa hypsibia, but is distinguished by its smaller size and flatter cranium. The fur is short and soft, with the back hairs about 3.5 millimetres (0.14 in) in length.
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