Four-toed Elephant Shrew

Four-toed Elephant Shrew[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Macroscelidea
Family: Macroscelididae
Genus: Petrodromus
Peters, 1846
Species: P. tetradactylus
Binomial name
Petrodromus tetradactylus
Peters, 1846
Four-toed Elephant Shrew range

The Four-toed Elephant Shrew or Four-toed Sengi (Petrodromus tetradactylus) is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Namibia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and moist savanna.[2]

It is the only species in the genus Petrodromus.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Schlitter, Duane A. (16 November 2005). Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 82-83. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
  2. ^ a b FitzGibbon, C., Perrin, M., Stuart, C. & Smit, H. (2008). Petrodromus tetradactylus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 December 2008.