Mole-like Rice Tenrec

Mole-like Rice Tenrec
Mole-like Rice Tenrec[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Oryzorictes
Subgenus: Oryzorictes
Species: O. hova
Binomial name
Oryzorictes hova
A. Grandidier, 1870
Mole-like Rice Tenrec range
Synonyms

talpoides G. Grandidier & Petit, 1930

The Mole-like Rice Tenrec (Oryzorictes hova), also known as the Fossorial Tenrec or Hova Rice Tenrec, 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, swamps, freshwater lakes, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.[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.). pp. 75. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
  2. ^ a b Afrotheria Specialist Group (Tenrec Section), Raherisehena, M. & Goodman, S. (2008). Oryzorictes hova. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.
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