{{Short description|Species of mammal}} {{Speciesbox | name = Hainan gymnure | image = Neohylomys hainanensis (10.3897-zookeys.795.28218) Figure 2.jpg | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Johnston, C. |author2=Smith, A.T. |date=2016 |title=''Neohylomys hainanensis'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T10588A22326961 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T10588A22326961.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | genus = Neohylomys | parent_authority = Shaw and Wong, 1959 | species = hainanensis | authority = [[Tsen-Hwang Shaw|Shaw]] & Wong, 1959 | synonyms = | range_map = Hainan Gymnure area.png | range_map_caption = Hainan gymnure range }}
The '''Hainan gymnure''' ('''''Neohylomys hainanensis'''''), also known as the '''Hainan moonrat''', is a species of [[mammal]] in the family [[Erinaceidae]]. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It was thought to be [[endemic]] to the island of [[Hainan]], [[China]], where it is threatened due to [[habitat loss]], but in 2018 was found to also occur in, and be rather common, in [[Northern Vietnam]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rozhnov|first1=Viatcheslav V.|last2=Lebedev|first2=Vladimir S.|last3=Bannikova|first3=Anna A.|last4=Abramov|first4=Alexei V.|date=2018-05-11|title=A broadly distributed species instead of an insular endemic? A new find of the poorly known Hainan gymnure (Mammalia, Lipotyphla)|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/28218/|journal=ZooKeys|language=en|issue=795|pages=77–81|doi=10.3897/zookeys.795.28218|issn=1313-2970|pmc=6232251|pmid=30429659|doi-access=free|bibcode=2018ZooK..795...77A }}</ref>
The Hainan gymnure is the only species in the [[monotypic]] [[genus]] '''''Neohylomys'''''. Although previously considered part of the genus ''[[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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Yuchun |last2=Wu |first2=Yi |last3=Lin |first3=Liang-Kong |last4=Harada |first4=Masashi |last5=Motokawa |first5=Masaharu |title=First karyological and molecular study of the Hainan gymnure Neohylomys hainanensis (Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae) |journal=Mammalia |date=2008 |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=344–346 |doi=10.1515/MAMM.2008.037 |s2cid=84478542 }}</ref>
== 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.<ref>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</ref>
==See also== *[[List of endangered and protected species of China]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Erinaceomorpha}} {{Taxonbar|from1=Q510892|from2=Q19816783}} [[Category:EDGE species]] [[Category:Gymnures]] [[Category:Mammals described in 1959]] [[Category:Mammals of China]] [[Category:Mammals of Vietnam]] [[Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot]]
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