The pygmy brown-toothed shrew (''Chodsigoa parva'') is a species of

shrew Shrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which belong to diffe ...

in the order

Eulipotyphla Eulipotyphla (, which means "truly fat and blind") is an order of mammals suggested by molecular methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, which includes the laurasiatherian members of the now-invalid polyphyletic order Lipotyphla, but not the afr ...

. It is distributed in China. ''C. parva'' was initially thought to be the same as ''

Chodsigoa lamula The lamulate shrew (''Chodsigoa lamula'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country ...

'', but it was found to be a separate species.

References

Red-toothed shrews Taxa named by Glover Morrill Allen Mammals described in 1923 {{redtoothed-shrew-stub