Mammals of the WorldVan Sung's Brown-toothed Shrew
Chodsigoa caovansunga
- Order
- Eulipotyphla
- Family
- Soricidae
- Genus
- Chodsigoa
- IUCN status
- DD
- Distribution
- China|Vietnam
- Realm
- Palearctic|Indomalaya
Other names: Van Sung's Shrew
About this species
- Habitat
- Montane forest; type locality at 1,500m
- Range
- Vietnam
Van Sung's shrew, also known as the Cao Van Sung mountain shrew, is a species of shrew known from Vietnam. It was named after Cao Van Sung, a small-mammal specialist at the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources in Hanoi. The type locality is at 1,500 m altitude on Mount Tay Con Linh II near Cao Bo, in Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang Province (Wikipedia, general species account).
It is a small species with a relatively short tail without a brush of long hair at the end, and the hands and feet are brownish in colour.
Description: Wildlife of Vietnam guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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