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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER AFROSORICIDA
--> SUBORDER TENRECOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Tenrecidae
--> SUBFAMILY Oryzorictinae
--> GENUS Microgale
SPECIES Microgale brevicaudata
| Author: | G. Grandidier, 1899. | | Citation: | Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 5: 349. | | Common Name: | Short-tailed Shrew Tenrec | | Type Locality: | "Environs de Mahanara, à 75 km environ au sud de Vohémar, sur la côte nord-est de Madagascar" [Maharana River, 78 km S of Iharana [Vohimarina], Antsiranana, Antalaha, Madagascar (MacPhee, 1987)]. | | Distribution: | Northern highlands, sambirano, western deciduous forest and eastern humid forest of N and NW Madagascar. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | There are only two records from the eastern humid forest, the type locality and Parc National de Marojejy (Goodman and Jenkins, 2000); similarly there is a single report of this species from the sambirano of Réserve Speciale de Manongarivo (Raxworthy and Rakotondraparany, 1988). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
breviceps Kaudern, 1918
occidentalis (G. Grandidier and Petit, 1931)
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