page_title: List of mammals of Madagascar
section_title: Order: Afrosoricida (tenrecs, otter shrews and golden moles)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Madagascar / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Superorder Afrotheria / Order: Afrosoricida (tenrecs, otter shrews and golden moles)
context_page_description: This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Madagascar. As of June 2014 there are 241 extant mammal species recognized in Madagascar, of which 22 are critically endangered, 62 are endangered, 32 are vulnerable, 9 are near threatened, 72 are of least concern and 44 are either data deficient or not evaluated. All of the critically endangered species are lemurs.
  The mammalian fauna of Madagascar is highly distinctive and largely endemic. The extant nonmarine, nonchiropteran taxa constitute 168 species, 40 genera and 9 families; of these, besides a probably introduced shrew, endemic taxa make up all the species, all the genera, and all but one of the families. This endemic terrestrial fauna, consisting of lemurs, tenrecs, nesomyine rodents and euplerid carnivorans, is thought to have colonized the island from Africa via four rafting events. The other historic terrestrial or semiterrestrial mammal group, the extinct hippopotamuses, is thought to have colonized the island possibly several times, perhaps via swimming.
context_section_description: The afrotherian order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles and otter shrews of sub-Saharan Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar, families of small mammals that were traditionally part of the order Insectivora. All native tenrecs of Madagascar are believed to descend from a common ancestor that lived 29–37 million years (Ma) ago after rafting from Africa, with the split from their closest relatives, the otter shrews of equatorial Africa, dated to about 47–53 Ma ago.
  Afrosoricida also contains the enigmatic extinct genus Plesiorycteropus, represented by two extinct species of dog-sized, probably insectivorous mammals restricted to Madagascar. Morphological analyses have tended to place them within Afrotheria close to aardvarks (order Tubulidentata), perhaps due to convergent specializations for digging. Analysis of preserved collagen sequences, however, places them in Afrosoricida closest to (and possibly within) tenrecs. The two species differ in size and aspects of morphology. They survived until as recently as 2150 BP.
  Family: Tenrecidae (tenrecs)
  Subfamily: Geogalinae
  Genus: Geogale
  Large-eared tenrec, Geogale aurita LC
  Subfamily: Oryzorictinae
  Genus: Microgale
  Short-tailed shrew tenrec, Microgale brevicaudata LC
  Cowan's shrew tenrec, Microgale cowani LC
  Drouhard's shrew tenrec, Microgale drouhardi LC
  Dryad shrew tenrec, Microgale dryas VU
  Pale shrew tenrec, Microgale fotsifotsy LC
  Gracile shrew tenrec, Microgale gracilis LC
  Grandidier's shrew tenrec, Microgale grandidieri LC
  Naked-nosed shrew tenrec, Microgale gymnorhyncha LC
  Jenkins's shrew tenrec, Microgale jenkinsae EN
  Northern shrew tenrec, Microgale jobihely EN
  Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec, Microgale longicaudata LC
  Microgale macpheei EX (PH)
  Major's long-tailed tenrec, (Microgale majori) LC
  Web-footed tenrec, Microgale mergulus VU
  Montane shrew tenrec, Microgale monticola VU
  Nasolo's shrew tenrec, Microgale nasoloi VU
  Pygmy shrew tenrec, Microgale parvula LC
  Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec, Microgale principula LC
  Least shrew tenrec, Microgale pusilla LC
  Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec, Microgale soricoides LC
  Taiva shrew tenrec, Microgale taiva LC
  Thomas's shrew tenrec, Microgale thomasi LC
  Genus: Nesogale
  Dobson's shrew tenrec, Nesogale dobsoni LC
  Talazac's shrew tenrec, Nesogale talazaci LC
  Genus: Oryzorictes
  Mole-like rice tenrec, Oryzorictes hova LC
  Four-toed rice tenrec, Oryzorictes teradactylus DD
  Subfamily: Tenrecinae
  Genus: Echinops
  Lesser hedgehog tenrec, Echinops telfairi LC
  Genus: Hemicentetes
  Highland streaked tenrec, Hemicentetes nigriceps LC
  Lowland streaked tenrec, Hemicentetes semispinosus LC
  Genus: Setifer
  Greater hedgehog tenrec, Setifer setosus LC
  Genus: Tenrec
  Tailless tenrec, Tenrec ecaudatus LC
  Incertae familiae: Genus: †Plesiorycteropus
  Plesiorycteropus germainepetterae EX (PH)
  Plesiorycteropus madagascariensis EX (PH)
caption: Tailless tenrec
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