Cowan's Shrew Tenrec

Cowan's Shrew Tenrec
Cowan's Shrew Tenrec[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Microgale
Species: M. cowani
Binomial name
Microgale cowani
Thomas, 1882
Cowan's Shrew Tenrec range

Cowan's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale cowani) is a species of mammal in the Tenrecidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, plantations, and heavily degraded former forest.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.). p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=11100014. 
  2. ^ a b Afrotheria Specialist Group (Tenrec Section), Jenkins, P. & Raherisehena, M. (2008). Microgale cowani. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.
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