Neurotrichini is a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

within the subfamily Talpinae of the

mole Mole (or Molé) may refer to: Animals * Mole (animal) or "true mole" * Golden mole, southern African mammals * Marsupial mole Marsupial moles, the Notoryctidae family, are two species of highly specialized marsupial mammals that are found i ...

family. It includes the living genus ''

Neurotrichus ''Neurotrichus'' is a genus of shrew-like mole (animal), moles. It is classified, together with the fossil genus ''Quyania'', in the tribe Neurotrichini of the subfamily Talpinae. The only living species is the Neurotrichus gibbsii, American shrew ...

'' with a single living species, the American shrew-mole (''Neurotrichus gibbsii''). While today restricted to the

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, fossils are known from

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.Hutterer, 2005

References

Literature cited

*Hutterer, R. 2005. Order Soricomorpha. Pp. 220–311 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.)
Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. {{Taxonbar, from=Q7002758 Talpidae Mammal tribes