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English: drawing of an Echinosorex gymnura (at the time of the creation of the picture Gymnura rafflesii) (en:Moonrat)
Date Unknown date, before 1884
Source Robert A. Sterndale: Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon, 1884, Thacker, London
Author unknown (cover claims: with 170 illustrations by the author, T. W. Wood, and others.)

This species (formerly called Gymnura rafflesii) was discovered and determined in 1835, or even earlier (SOURCE: UBL BPL 2922 (WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS LEYDEN UNIVERSITY (NL): P.W. Korthals (Padang, Sumatra) to C.G.C. Reinwardt (Leyden University);letter dated 20 June 1835. In this letter Korthals informs Reinwardt that during a trip in the mountain region near Padang they received a specimen of "Gymnura rafflesii" (english; "moonrat").

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