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)
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book chapter
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Hemiechinus collaris
(Gray, 1830)
.
In
Hardwicke, Illust. Indian Zool., 1, pl.8
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
"Doab", restricted by
Wroughton (1910:81)
to "between Jumna and Ganges Rivers",
India
; see discussion in
Wroughton (1910:81)
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Pakistan
and NW
India
.
SYNONYMS:
grayi
, indicus, spatangus.
COMMENTS: Subgenus
Hemiechinus
.
Formerly included in
auritus
,
but
Roberts (1977)
indicated that there is discontinuity in distribution and morphology between
collaris
(which he called
auritus
collaris
)
and
auritus
(which he called
megalotis).