Order Insectivora Author Rainer Hutterer text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 69 130 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085 1-56098-217-9 7353085 Hemiechinus nudiventris (Horsfield, 1851) . Cat. Mamm. Mus. E. India Co., p. 136 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Madras" = Madras city or Tamil Nadu province , India . DISTRIBUTION: Few records from the S Indian provinces Madras (= Tamil Nadu ) and Travancore (= Kerala ). COMMENTS: Subgenus Paraechinus . Biswas and Ghose (1970) gave nudiventris specific rank while Corbet (1988:156-157) regarded it as a distinct subspecies of micropus . Provisonally listed as a species, following Frost et al. (1991:29) .