Microgale

Microgale
Classificação científica
Reino: Animalia Filo: Chordata Classe: Mammalia Infraclasse: Placentalia Ordem: Afrosoricida Família: Tenrecidae Género: Microgale Thomas, 1882
Espécies
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Microgale é um gênero placentário da família Tenrecidae, endêmico de Madagascar.

Espécies

• Microgale brevicaudata G. Grandidier, 1899
• Microgale cowani Thomas, 1882
• Microgale dobsoni Thomas, 1884
• Microgale drouhardi G. Grandider, 1934
• Microgale dryas Jenkins, 1992
• Microgale fotsifotsy Jenkins, Raxworthy e Nusbaum, 1997
• Microgale gracilis (Major, 1896)
• Microgale grandidieri Olson, Rakotomalala, Hildebrandt, Lanier, Raxworthy & Goodman, 2009
• Microgale gymnorhyncha Jenkins, Goodman e Raxworthy, 1996
• Microgale jenkinsae Goodman e Soarimalala, 2004
• Microgale jobihely Goodman et al., 2006
• Microgale longicaudata Thomas, 1882
• Microgale majori Thomas, 1918
• Microgale monticola Goodman e Jenkins, 1998
• Microgale nasoloi Jenkins e Goodman, 1999
• Microgale parvula G. Grandidier, 1934
• Microgale principula Thomas, 1926
• Microgale pusilla Major, 1896
• Microgale soricoides Jenkins, 1993
• Microgale taiva Major, 1896
• Microgale talazaci Major, 1896
• Microgale thomasi Major, 1896

Referências

• BRONNER, G. N.; JENKINS, P. D. Order Afrosoricida. In: WILSON, D. E.; REEDER, D. M. (Eds.) Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. v. 1, 71-81.
• GOODMAN, S. M., RAXWORTHY, C. J., MAMINIRINA, C. P., OLSON, L. E. (2006). A new species of shrew tenrec (Microgale jobihely) from northern Madagascar. Journal of Zoology 270, 384-398.
• GOODMAN, S. M., SAORIMALALA, V. (2004). A new species of Microgale (Lipotyphla: Tenrecidae: Oryzorictinae) from the Forêt des Mikea of southwestern Madagascar. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117(3), 251-265.
• YODER, A. D.; OLSON, L. E.; HANLEY, C.; HECKMAN, K. L.; RASOLOARISON, R.; RUSSELL, A. L.; RANIVO, J.; SOARIMALALA, V.; KARANTH, K. P.; RASELIMANANA, A. P.; GOODMAN, S. (2005). A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malagasy vertebrates. PNAS 102: 6587–6594.
• OLSON, L.E.; RAKOTOMALAL, Z.; HILDEBRANDT, K.B.P.; LANIER, H.C.; RAXWORTHY, C.J.; GOODMAN, S.M. 2009. Pylogeography of Microgale brevicaudata (Tenrecidae) and description of a new species from western Madagascar. Journal of Mammalogy 90 (5): 1095–1110.