Neotetracus
Genus of mammals
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Neotetracus is a genus of gymnure that contains a single extant species, the shrew gymnure (Neotetracus sinensis) of China and Southeast Asia.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Erinaceidae |
| Subfamily: | Galericinae |
| Genus: | Neotetracus Trouessart, 1909 |
| Type species | |
| Neotetracus sinensis Trouessart, 1909 | |
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Another fossil species is also known from the Miocene of Thailand, Neotetracus butleri.[1][2]
