Microgale

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

• 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.