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Issue: Vol. 5541 No. 3: 27 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.2
Page range: 294-306
Abstract views: 199
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A new species of Neohylomys (Eulipotyphla: Galericidae) from northern Vietnam

Lomonosov Moscow State University; Vorobievy Gory; Moscow 119992; Russia
Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University; B. Nikitskaya 6; Moscow 125009; Russia
Lomonosov Moscow State University; Vorobievy Gory; Moscow 119992; Russia
Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden; Lam Kam Road; Tai Po; Hong Kong; China
Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Center; Nguyen Van Huyen; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam
Institute of Genome Research; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; Hanoi 10072; Vietnam
Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University; B. Nikitskaya 6; Moscow 125009; Russia; Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Center; Nguyen Van Huyen; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution; Russian Academy of Sciences; Leninskiy prosp.; 33; Moscow 119071; Russia
Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Center; Nguyen Van Huyen; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam; Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Universitetskaya nab.; 1; Saint Petersburg 199034; Russia
Mammalia gymnures integrative taxonomy systematics Vietnam

Abstract

A new species of gymnure of the genus Neohylomys is described from northern Vietnam based on morphological and molecular differences. The species Neohylomys vietnamensis sp. nov. differs from the closely related species N. hainanensis from Hainan Island, China, previously the only species of the genus Neohylomys, by morphological and morphometric traits and by the mitochondrial cytb (8% of divergence) and nuclear BRCA1 genes. To date, the new species is known to exist only in northern Vietnam.

 

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