Elephantulus
Genus of mammals
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| Elephantulus, with a common flat lizard behind | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| 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 elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It contains the following species:
- Short-snouted elephant shrew (E. brachyrhynchus)
- Cape elephant shrew (E. edwardii)
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew (E. fuscipes)
- Dusky elephant shrew (E. fuscus)
- Bushveld elephant shrew (E. intufi)
- Eastern rock elephant shrew (E. myurus)
- Karoo rock elephant shrew (E. pilicaudus)
- Western rock elephant shrew (E. rupestris)
References
- ^ 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.
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Extant Macroscelidea (elephant shrews) species
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Mammalia
- Infraclass Eutheria
- Superorder Afrotheria
- Short-snouted elephant shrew (E. brachyrhynchus)
- Cape elephant shrew (E. edwardii)
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew (E. fuscipes)
- Dusky elephant shrew (E. fuscus)
- Bushveld elephant shrew (E. intufi)
- Eastern rock elephant shrew (E. myurus)
- Karoo rock elephant shrew (Elephantulus pilicaudus)
- Rufous elephant shrew (E. rufescens)
- Western rock elephant shrew (E. rupestris)
- Somali elephant shrew (G. revoilii)
- Namib round-eared elephant shrew (M. flavicaudatus)
- Etendeka round-eared sengi (M. micus)
- Round-eared elephant shrew (M. proboscideus)
- Four-toed elephant shrew (P. tetradactylus)
- North African elephant shrew (P. rozeti)
- Golden-rumped sengi (R. chrysopygus)
- Chequered sengi (R. cirnei)
- Black and rufous sengi (R. petersi)
- Stuhlmann's sengi (R. stuhlmanni)
- Grey-faced sengi (R. udzungwensis)
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