Somali elephant shrew
| Somali elephant shrew[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Macroscelidea |
| Family: | Macroscelididae |
| Genus: | Galegeeska Heritage & Rayaleh 2020 |
| Species: | G. revoilii
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| Binomial name | |
| Galegeeska revoilii (Huet, 1881)
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| Somali elephant shrew range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Elephantulus revoilii | |
The Somali elephant shrew or Somali sengi (Galegeeska revoilii) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is restricted to the northern Horn of Africa; it was formerly thought to be exclusively endemic to Somalia, but a 2020 sighting also indicates they are found in Djibouti, and potentially Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and hot deserts.[2][3] It was formerly classified in the genus Elephantulus, but a 2020 study found it to be the sister taxon of the clade containing the genera Petrodromus and Petrosaltator; due to this, it was reclassified in the monotypic genus Galegeeska.[4] The split with the Petrodromus-Petrosaltator clade is estimated to have occurred about 20.6 million years ago.[4][5]
The Somali sengi is among the 25 "most wanted lost" species that are the focus of Global Wildlife Conservation's “Search for Lost Species” initiative.[6]. On 18 August 2020, it was announced that a population had been found in Djibouti, the first documented since 1968.[7][8]
References
- ^ Schlitter, D.A. (2005). "Order Macroscelidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Rathbun, G.B. (2015). "Elephantulus revoilii (errata version published in 2017)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T7137A117060302. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) {{cite iucn}}: error: title has extraneous text (help) - ^ CNN, Jack Guy. "Tiny elephant shrew species documented in Horn of Africa for first time in nearly 50 years". CNN. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b Heritage, S.; Rayaleh, H.; Awaleh, D.G.; Rathbun, G.B. (2020). "New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa". PeerJ. 8: e9652. doi:10.7717/peerj.9652.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ https://peerj.com/articles/9652/
- ^ "The Search for Lost Species". Global Wildlife Conservation.
- ^ Carrington, Damian (18 August 2020). "Tiny elephant shrew species, missing for 50 years, rediscovered". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53820395
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