# Hainan gymnure

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Species of mammal

Hainan gymnure Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Eulipotyphla Family: Erinaceidae Subfamily: Galericinae Genus: Neohylomys Shaw and Wong, 1959 Species: N. hainanensis Binomial name Neohylomys hainanensis Shaw & Wong, 1959 Hainan gymnure range

The **Hainan gymnure** (***Neohylomys hainanensis***), also known as the **Hainan moonrat**, is a species of [mammal](/source/Mammal) in the family [Erinaceidae](/source/Erinaceidae). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It was thought to be [endemic](/source/Endemic) to the island of [Hainan](/source/Hainan), [China](/source/China), where it is threatened due to [habitat loss](/source/Habitat_loss), but in 2018 was found to also occur in, and be rather common, in [Northern Vietnam](/source/Northern_Vietnam).[2]

The Hainan gymnure is the only species in the [monotypic](/source/Monotypic) [genus](/source/Genus) ***Neohylomys***. Although previously considered part of the genus *[Hylomys](/source/Hylomys)*, gene sequencing of a mitochondrial cytochrome *b* gene provided evidence that the species is sufficiently distantly related to comprise a genus of its own.[3]

## Description

Hainan gymnures have olive-brown fur with a longitudinal black line on the anterior midback. The species is small, with a length of 15 to 16 centimeters. The tail makes up approximately 26.3% of this length.[4]

## See also

- [List of endangered and protected species of China](/source/List_of_endangered_and_protected_species_of_China)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-iucn_status_17_November_2021_1-0)** Johnston, C.; Smith, A.T. (2016). ["*Neohylomys hainanensis*"](https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10588/22326961). *[IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](/source/IUCN_Red_List)*. **2016** e.T10588A22326961. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T10588A22326961.en](https://doi.org/10.2305%2FIUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T10588A22326961.en). Retrieved 17 November 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Rozhnov, Viatcheslav V.; Lebedev, Vladimir S.; Bannikova, Anna A.; Abramov, Alexei V. (2018-05-11). ["A broadly distributed species instead of an insular endemic? A new find of the poorly known Hainan gymnure (Mammalia, Lipotyphla)"](https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/28218/). *ZooKeys* (795): 77–81. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2018ZooK..795...77A](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ZooK..795...77A). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.3897/zookeys.795.28218](https://doi.org/10.3897%2Fzookeys.795.28218). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1313-2970](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1313-2970). [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [6232251](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232251). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [30429659](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30429659).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Li, Yuchun; Wu, Yi; Lin, Liang-Kong; Harada, Masashi; Motokawa, Masaharu (2008). "First karyological and molecular study of the Hainan gymnure Neohylomys hainanensis (Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae)". *Mammalia*. **72** (4): 344–346. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1515/MAMM.2008.037](https://doi.org/10.1515%2FMAMM.2008.037). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [84478542](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:84478542).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Abramov, A. V., Bannikova, A. A., Lebedev, V. S., & Rozhnov, V. V. (2018). A broadly distributed species instead of an insular endemic? A new find of the poorly known Hainan gymnure (Mammalia, Lipotyphla). ZooKeys, 795, 77–81. [https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.795.28218](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.795.28218)

v t e Extant Erinaceidae species by subfamily Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Infraclass Eutheria Superorder Laurasiatheria Order Eulipotyphla Erinaceinae (Hedgehogs) Atelerix Four-toed hedgehog (A. albiventris) North African hedgehog (A. algirus) Southern African hedgehog (A. frontalis) Somali hedgehog (A. sclateri) Erinaceus Amur hedgehog (E. amurensis) Southern white-breasted hedgehog (E. concolor) West European hedgehog (E. europaeus) Northern white-breasted hedgehog (E. roumanicus) Hemiechinus Long-eared hedgehog (H. auritus) Indian long-eared hedgehog (H. collaris) Mesechinus Daurian hedgehog (M. dauuricus) Hugh's hedgehog (M. hughi) Gaoligong forest hedgehog (M. wangi) Small-toothed forest hedgehog (M. miodon) Eastern forest hedgehog (M. orientalis) Paraechinus Desert hedgehog (P. aethiopicus) Brandt's hedgehog (P. hypomelas) Indian hedgehog (P. micropus) Bare-bellied hedgehog (P. nudiventris) Galericinae (Gymnures) Echinosorex Moonrat (E. gymnura) Hylomys Dwarf gymnure (H. parvus) Javan short-tailed gymnure (H. suillus) Bornean short-tailed gymnure (H. dorsalis) Max's short-tailed gymnure (H. maxi) Dalat gymnure (H. macarong) Northern short-tailed gymnure (H. peguensis) Leuser gymnure (H. vorax) Neohylomys Hainan gymnure (N. hainanensis) Neotetracus Shrew gymnure (N. sinensis) Otohylomys Long-eared gymnure (O. megalotis) Podogymnura Dinagat gymnure (P. aureospinula) Eastern Mindanao gymnure (P. intermedia) Mindanao gymnure (P. truei)

Taxon identifiers Neohylomys hainanensis Wikidata: Q510892 Wikispecies: Neohylomys hainanensis ADW: Neohylomys BOLD: 503117 CoL: 46JLL EoL: 311999 GBIF: 2437121 iNaturalist: 43080 ITIS: 709726 IUCN: 10588 MDD: 1003826 MSW: 13600070 NCBI: 483536 Observation.org: 84029 Xeno-canto: Neohylomys-hainanensis Neohylomys Wikidata: Q19816783 Wikispecies: Neohylomys BOLD: 503116 CoL: 5ZP4 EoL: 39534 GBIF: 2437120 iNaturalist: 43079 IRMNG: 1017670 ITIS: 709689 MSW: 13600069 NCBI: 483535 Open Tree of Life: 736218 Paleobiology Database: 253502

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