Blarinella

• Asiatic Short-tailed Shrew Blarinella quadraticauda

  A shrew recorded around China's Sichuan Basin and in the mountains of northern Vietnam. Researchers have also studied differences among regional groups.

• Burmese Short-tailed Shrew Blarinella wardi

  This shrew is recorded in the mountains of Yunnan, China, and northern Myanmar. Its tail is about half the head-and-body length, and it is described as semi-fossorial, burrowing in leaf litter and loose topsoil.