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SPECIES Oryzorictes tetradactylus

Author:Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier, 1882.
Citation:Le Naturaliste, 4: 55.
Common Name:Four-toed Rice Tenrec
Type Locality:"Du plateau d’Emirne" [Imerina, Madagascar (Viette, 1991)].
Distribution:Eastern humid forest and central highlands of C and E Madagascar.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Subgenus Nesoryctes (see Heim de Balsac [1972] and Genest and Petter [1975]). O. niger is considered a melanistic form of tetradactylus, see Thomas (1918a).
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    niger Major, 1896

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