Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Soricidae > Nectogale > Nectogale elegansNectogale elegans (Elegant Water Shrew)The elegant water shrew (Nectogale elegans) is a species of mammal in the subfamily Soricinae of the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Nectogale. It lives in Sikkim and China. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 21.82 EDGE Score: 3.13 |
| Nocturnal [3] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 4.724 inches (12 cm) | | Water Biome [1] | Rivers and Streams |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 32.5 grams | | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | | Diet - Fish [3] | 80 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Daba Mountains evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Guizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
China, India, Bhutan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Northern Triangle subtropical forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle temperate forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Qilian Mountains conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows |
China |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
No |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Mountains of Southwest China |
China, Myanmar |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 2Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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