Gymnura

Horsfield and Vigors and Lesson, the two former in England and the latter in France, saw that it was not a civet, and, taking the naked tail as a peculiarity, they called the genus _Gymnura_, and the specimen _Rafflesii_.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

I had almost concluded my sketch of the Insectivora without alluding to one most interesting genus, which ought properly to have come between the shrews and the hedgehogs, the _Gymnura_, which, though common in the Malay countries, has only recently been found in

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

_Erinaceidae_, and De Blainville proposed for it the generic name of _Echinosorex_, but the one generally adopted is _Gymnura_, which was the specific name given to it by its discoverer, Sir Stamford

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

Mr. Blanford was informed by Mr. Davison, who obtained it in Burmah, that the _Gymnura_ is purely nocturnal in its habits, and lives under the roots of trees.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870