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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER AFROSORICIDA
--> SUBORDER TENRECOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Tenrecidae
--> SUBFAMILY Oryzorictinae
--> GENUS Limnogale
SPECIES Limnogale mergulus
| Author: | Major, 1896. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18: 319. | | Common Name: | Web-footed Tenrec | | Type Locality: | Madagascar, Imasindrary, NE Betsileo. | | Distribution: | Freshwater streams of eastern humid forest and central highlands of E Madagascar. | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Morphological evidence suggests that Limnogale and the African Potamogalinae are sister taxa (Asher, 1999). |
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