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--> ORDER AFROSORICIDA
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--> FAMILY Tenrecidae
--> SUBFAMILY Tenrecinae
--> GENUS Setifer
SPECIES Setifer setosus
Author: | Schreber, 1778. | Citation: | Die Säugethiere ….. mit Beschreibungen, 3: 590, pl. 164. | Common Name: | Greater Hedgehog Tenrec | Type Locality: | Madagascar. | Distribution: | All latitudes and phytographic zones: eastern humid forest, central highlands, northern highlands, sambirano, western deciduous forest, spiny bush, Madagascar. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Dasogale fontoynonti was based on a juvenile Setifer setosus, see Poduschka and Poduschka (1982:253) and MacPhee (1987b:133). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
acanthurus Boddaert, 1785 fontoynonti G. Grandidier, 1930 melantho Thomas, 1926 nigrescens I. Geoffroy, 1839 nigricans Bartlett, 1875 spinosus Desmarest, 1820
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