- Microgale
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Microgale[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Afrosoricida Family: Tenrecidae Genus: Microgale
Thomas, 1882Species 22 extant, 1 extinct see text
Microgale is a genus of mammal in the Tenrecidae family. There are 22 living species and one known extinct species known from a fossil. Some species have been discovered in the last twenty years.
It contains the following extant species:
- Short-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale brevicaudata) – G. Grandidier, 1899
- Cowan's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale cowani) – Thomas, 1882
- Dobson's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale dobsoni) – Thomas, 1884
- Drouhard's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale drouhardi) – Grandidier, 1934
- Dryad Shrew Tenrec (Microgale dryas) - Jenkins, 1992
- Pale Shrew Tenrec (Microgale fotsifotsy) – Jenkins, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 1997
- Gracile Shrew Tenrec (Microgale gracilis) – (Major, 1896)
- Microgale grandidieri
- Naked-nosed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale gymnorhyncha)
- Jenkins' Shrew Tenrec Microgale jenkinsae
- Northern Shrew Tenrec (Microgale jobihely)
- Lesser Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale longicaudata)
- Major's Long-tailed Tenrec (Microgale majori)
- Montane Shrew Tenrec (Microgale monticola)
- Nasolo's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale nasoloi)
- Pygmy Shrew Tenrec (Microgale parvula)
- Greater Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale principula)
- Least Shrew Tenrec (Microgale pusilla)
- Shrew-toothed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale soricoides)
- Taiva Shrew Tenrec (Microgale taiva)
- Talazac's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale talazaci)
- Thomas's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale thomasi)
Extinct species
- Microgale macpheei - subfossil from Madagascar. [1]
References
- ^ Bronner, Gary N.; Jenkins, Paulina D. (16 November 2005). "Order Afrosoricida (pp. 71-81)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 72-75. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
- Olson, L.E.; Rakotomalal, Z.; Hildebrandt, K.B.P.; Lanier, H.C.; Raxworthy, C.J. & Goodman, S.M. 2009. Phylogeography of Microgale brevicaudata (Tenrecidae) and description of a new species from western Madagascar. Journal of Mammalogy 90 (5): 1095–1110.
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