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Tenrecidae Gray 1821
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Description
Family TENRECIDAE
(TENRECS AND SHREW TENRECS)
• Smallto medium-sized; pelage spiny with short or absent tail, or soft fur with long tail; and insectivorous but some omnivorous and carnivorous.
• 10-35 cm.
• Afrotropical Region.
• Humid, sub-humid, dry, and dry spiny forests and open woodland from lowlands to highlands.
• 3 genera, 31 species, 31 taxa.
• 2 species endangered, 4 species vulnerable; none extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2018, Tenrecidae, pp. 134-172 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8 Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 134, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6808230
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Related works
- Has part
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.6808232 (DOI)
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.6808234 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.6808230 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/670A492C27778D73FF9AFF83FFE8FFE0 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tenrecidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Afrosoricida
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tenrecidae Gray, 1821 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2018