Bailey's Brown-toothed Shrew

Bailey's brown-toothed shrew, Episoriculus baileyi, is a large shrew whose tail is shorter than or as long as its head and body. It is told from its relatives by a robust first upper incisor, a long snout and upper tooth row, a large ear-bone ring and a high rising part of the lower jaw. The type specimen came from the Tsu River in the Mishmi Hills at about 2,286m (Motokawa and Lin 2005; Mammal Diversity Database).

It is known from Sikkim and Assam in India, Myanmar and Vietnam, and is listed for China. It was long treated as a subspecies of E. leucops until Motokawa and Lin raised it to a full species, and a 2025 PLOS ONE study accepts it as valid, with only 3.4% genetic distance to E. leucops (PLOS ONE 2025, open access).