Microgale

Microgale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Afrosoricida
Family:	Tenrecidae
Genus:	Microgale; Thomas, 1882
Species
	22 extant, 1 extinct see text

Microgale is a genus of mammal in the Tenrecidae family. There are 22 living species and one known extinct species known from a fossil. Some species have been discovered in the last twenty years.

It contains the following extant species:

Short-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale brevicaudata) – G. Grandidier, 1899
Cowan's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale cowani) – Thomas, 1882
Dobson's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale dobsoni) – Thomas, 1884
Drouhard's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale drouhardi) – Grandidier, 1934
Dryad Shrew Tenrec (Microgale dryas) - Jenkins, 1992
Pale Shrew Tenrec (Microgale fotsifotsy) – Jenkins, Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 1997
Gracile Shrew Tenrec (Microgale gracilis) – (Major, 1896)
Microgale grandidieri
Naked-nosed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale gymnorhyncha)
Jenkins' Shrew Tenrec Microgale jenkinsae
Northern Shrew Tenrec (Microgale jobihely)
Lesser Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale longicaudata)
Major's Long-tailed Tenrec (Microgale majori)
Montane Shrew Tenrec (Microgale monticola)
Nasolo's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale nasoloi)
Pygmy Shrew Tenrec (Microgale parvula)
Greater Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale principula)
Least Shrew Tenrec (Microgale pusilla)
Shrew-toothed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale soricoides)
Taiva Shrew Tenrec (Microgale taiva)
Talazac's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale talazaci)
Thomas's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale thomasi)

Extinct species

Microgale macpheei - subfossil from Madagascar. [1]

References

^ Bronner, G.N.; Jenkins, P.D. (2005). "Order Afrosoricida". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 72–75. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

Olson, L.E.; Rakotomalal, Z.; Hildebrandt, K.B.P.; Lanier, H.C.; Raxworthy, C.J. & Goodman, S.M. 2009. Phylogeography of Microgale brevicaudata (Tenrecidae) and description of a new species from western Madagascar. Journal of Mammalogy 90 (5): 1095–1110.

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[msw3-1] Bronner, G.N.; Jenkins, P.D. (2005). "Order Afrosoricida". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 72–75. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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