Nagaland shrew
| Nagaland shrew | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | Nagasorex Hutterer et al., 2025 |
| Species: | N. albidens |
| Binomial name | |
| Nagasorex albidens | |
The Nagaland shrew (Nagasorex albidens) is a species of shrew in the family Soricidae. It is the only species within the monotypic genus Nagasorex. It is endemic to northeastern India. The species was described based on a single specimen obtained in the Naga Hills of Nagaland in 1950. It was formally described as a new genus and species in June 2025. The species describers regarded it as highly divergent from other living shrews, with genetic data suggesting it to be the sister group of the Crocidurinae or the clade comprising Crodicurinae and the African Myosoricinae, with the authors suggesting based on morphological that it was closely related to the extinct Miocene and Pliocene Eurasian genera Dobenflorinia Clapasorex, Miosorex, Crocidosorex, and more distantly to living Myosoricinae. The authors, despite the genetic data not supporting it, tentatively suggested that it should be placed in Myosoricinae.
References
- 1 2 Hutterer, Rainer; Swanson, Mark; Esselstyn, Jacob; Heaney, Lawrence (2025-06-18). "The Shrew of Nagaland: A Remarkable New Genus and Species from Northeast India, With A Discussion of The Phylogeny and Classification of The Soricidae (Mammalia)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 474: 1–69. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.474.1.1.
- ↑ "Nagasorex albidens • Nagaland Shrew". www.mammaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2026-10-28.