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Oryzorictes tetradactylus Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier 1882
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Oryzorictes tetradactylus Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier 1882
Oryzorictes tetradactylus Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier 1882, Le Naturaliste, 4: 55.
Type Locality: "Du plateau d’Emirne" [Imerina, Madagascar (Viette, 1991)].
Vernacular Names: Four-toed Rice Tenrec.
Synonyms: Oryzorictes niger Major 1896.
Distribution: Eastern humid forest and central highlands of C and E Madagascar.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Subgenus Nesoryctes (see Heim de Balsac [1972] and Genest and Petter [1975]). O. niger is considered a melanistic form of tetradactylus, see Thomas (1918 a).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Afrosoricida, pp. 71-81 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 75, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/ECD0AAEF9D4B901FFFAEF2116D11AC61 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/D43049B7DEF7812D15C29DCD55D82B33 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231548806 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tenrecidae
- Genus
- Oryzorictes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Afrosoricida
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier
- Species
- tetradactylus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oryzorictes tetradactylus Grandidier, 1882 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Viette, P. 1991. Principales localites ou des insectes ont ete recueillis a Madagascar. Faune de Madagascar, supplement 2, 88 pp.
- Major, C. I. F. 1896. Diagnoses of new mammals from Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 18: 319 - 325.
- Heim de Balsac, H. 1972. Insectivores. Pp. 629 - 660, in Biogeography and ecology in Madagascar (R. Battistini, and G. Richard-Vindard, eds.). W. Junk, The Hague, 765 pp.
- Genest, H., and F. Petter. 1975. Part 1.1, Family Tenrecidae. Pp. 1 - 7, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued in Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- Thomas, O. 1918 a. On the arrangement of the small Tenrecidae hitherto referred to Oryzorictes and Microgale. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 1: 302 - 307.