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Hainan gymnure
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
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) or 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.

This gymnure is in the monotypic genus Neohylomys. Although previously considered part of the genus Hylomys, gene sequencing of a mitochondrial cytochrome b gene supports the idea that the species is sufficiently distantly related to comprise a genus of its own.

Description

Small sized with a length of 15 cm – 16.2 cm. The tail is approximately 26.3% of head and body length. Hainan Gymnures have olive-brown fur with a longitudinal black line on its anterior midback.

See also

• List of endangered and protected species of China

References

1. Johnston, C.; Smith, A.T. (2016). "Neohylomys hainanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T10588A22326961. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T10588A22326961.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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)". ZooKeys (795): 77–81. Bibcode:2018ZooK..795...77A. doi:10.3897/zookeys.795.28218. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 6232251. PMID 30429659.
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:10.1515/MAMM.2008.037. S2CID 84478542.
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

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