Dobson's shrew tenrec

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Dobson's shrew tenrec [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Afrosoricida
Suborder: Tenrecomorpha
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Nesogale
Species:
N. dobsoni
Binomial name
Nesogale dobsoni
(Thomas, 1884)
Microgale dobsoni range map.svg
Dobson's shrew tenrec range

Dobson's shrew tenrec (Nesogale dobsoni) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist forests, plantations, and heavily degraded former forest. [2] On the basis of molecular data indicating that it and Talazac's shrew tenrec form a sister group to the rest of Microgale , these two species were transferred from Microgale to Nesogale in 2016. [3]

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The gracile shrew tenrec is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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Talazac's shrew tenrec is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist forests. On the basis of molecular data indicating that it and Dobson's shrew tenrec form a sister group to the rest of Microgale, these two species were transferred from Microgale to Nesogale in 2016.

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Nesogale is a genus of tenrecs, which are a family of afrotherian mammals endemic to Madagascar. On the basis of molecular data indicating its two species form a sister group to the rest of Microgale, they were transferred from Microgale to Nesogale in 2016, thus resurrecting a genus first erected by Oldfield Thomas in 1918. These genera, along with Oryzorictes, form the tenrec subfamily Oryzorictinae. Nesogale contains the following species:

References

  1. Bronner, G.N.; Jenkins, P.D. (2005). "Order Afrosoricida". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 73. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  2. 1 2 Stephenson, P.J.; Soarimalala, V.; Goodman, S. (2016). "Microgale dobsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T40587A97190623. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T40587A97190623.en . Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  3. Everson, K. M.; Soarimalala, V.; Goodman, S. M.; Olson, L. E. (2016). "Multiple Loci and Complete Taxonomic Sampling Resolve the Phylogeny and Biogeographic History of Tenrecs (Mammalia: Tenrecidae) and Reveal Higher Speciation Rates in Madagascar's Humid Forests". Systematic Biology. 65 (5): 890–909. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syw034 . PMID   27103169.