Elephantulus
| Elephantulus[1] | |
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| Elephantulus, with a common flat lizard behind | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Macroscelidea |
| Family: | Macroscelididae |
| Genus: | Elephantulus Thomas & Schwann, 1906 |
| Type species | |
| Macroscelides rupestris A. Smith, 1831 | |
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Elephantulus is a genus of sengi, or elephant shrew, in the family Macroscelididae.[2]
It contains the following species:
- Short-snouted sengi (E. brachyrhynchus)
- Cape sengi (E. edwardii)
- Dusky-footed sengi (E. fuscipes)
- Dusky sengi (E. fuscus)
- Bushveld sengi (E. intufi)
- Eastern rock sengi (E. myurus)
- Karoo rock sengi (E. pilicaudus)
- Western rock sengi (E. rupestris)
References
[edit]- ↑ Schlitter, D.A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 82–83. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Smit, H.A.; Robinson, T.J.; Watson, J.; Jansen van Vuunen, B. (2008). "A New Species of Elephant-shrew (Afrotheria: Macroscelidea: Elephantulus) from South Africa". Journal of Mammalogy. 89 (5): 1257–1268. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-254.1. hdl:10019.1/117701.
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