Microgale brevicaudata

G. Grandidier, 1899

Short-tailed Shrew Tenrec

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Atlantogenata
Superorder : Afrotheria
Order : Afrosoricida
Suborder : Tenrecomorpha
Family : Tenrecidae
Subfamily : Oryzorictinae
Genus : Microgale

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Grandidier, G. 1899. Description d'une nouvelle espèce d'insectivore provenant de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 5:349.

Original name as described

Microgale brevicaudata

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1986-387

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"les environs de Mahanara, à 75 kilomètres environ au sud de Vohémar, sur la côte nord-est de Madagascar." Restricted by R. D. E. MacPhee in 1987 to "Maharana River ... 78 km S of Iharana [Vohimarina], and originates within the eastern part of the eastern rain forest; Antsiranana, Antalaha [Madagascar]; 13°58'S, 49°58'E."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Madagascar

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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