Microgale

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenrecomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Magnordo: Epitheria Superordo: Afrotheria Cladus: Afroinsectiphilia Ordo: Afrosoricida Subordo: Tenrecomorpha

Familia: Tenrecidae
Subfamilia: Oryzorictinae
Genus: Microgale
Species (23 + †1): M. brevicaudata – M. cowani – M. dobsoni – M. drouhardi – M. dryas – M. fotsifotsy – M. gracilis – M. grandidieri – M. gymnorhyncha – M. jenkinsae – M. jobihely – M. longicaudata – †M. macpheei – M. majori – M. mergulus – M. monticola – M. nasoloi – M. parvula – M. principula – M. pusilla – M. soricoides – M. taiva – M. talazaci – M. thomasi

Name

• Microgale Thomas, 1882: 319

Type species: Microgale longicaudata Thomas, 1882, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Nesogale Thomas, 1918: 303

Type species: Microgale dobsoni Thomas, 1884, by original designation.

• Leptogale Thomas, 1918: 306

Type species: Oryzoryctes gracilis Major, 1896, by original designation.

• Paramicrogale G. Grandidier & Petit, 1931

Type species: Paramicrogale occidentalis G. Grandidier & Petit, 1931, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Thomas, O. 1882. Description of a new genus and two new species of Insectivora from Madagascar. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 16(92): 319–322, 1 fig. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02284a.x BHL Reference page. 
• Thomas, O. 1918. On the arrangement of the small Tenrecidae hitherto referred to as Oryzorictes and Microgale. Annals and Magazine of Natural History series 9, 1: 302–307. BHL
• Grandidier, G. & Petit, G. 1931. Un type nouveaux de centetide malgache, Paramicrogale occidentalis. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 56: 126–139.

Additional references

• MacPhee, R.D.E. 1987. The Shrew Tenrecs of Madagascar: Systematic Revision and Holocene Distribution of Microgale (Tenrecidae, Insectivora). American Museum Novitates 2889: 1–45. Full article Reference page. 
• Olson, L.E., Goodman, S.M. & Yoder, A.D. 2004. Illumination of cryptic species boundaries in long-tailed shrew tenrecs (Mammalia: Tenrecidae: Microgale), with new insights into geographic variation and distributional constraints. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00366.x Reference page. 
• Goodman, S.M., Vasey, N. & Burney, D.A. 2007. Description of a new species of subfossil shrew tenrec (Afrosoricida: Tenrecidae: Microgale) from cave deposits in southeastern Madagascar. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 120: 367–376. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2007)120[367:DOANSO]2.0.CO;2

Links

• Microgale in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.