Nesogale Thomas 1918
Authors/Creators
- 1. Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) UMR 7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France;
- 2. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK;
- 3. Vertebrates Division, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Description
Genus Nesogale Thomas, 1918
This genus, originally included in the genus Microgale, is distinguished from the latter by morphological and molecular differences, and is represented by two species, Nesogale dobsoni (Thomas, 1884) and N. talazaci (Major, 1896). Both species, listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (Stephenson et al. 2016), are widely distributed, with a broad latitudinal range in moist evergreen forest and, while both occur in the Central Highlands, N. dobsoni is apparently more tolerant of fringe habitat of fragmented forest and marshland. The two species are distinguished by the greater size of N. talazaci. Measurements of the subfossil mandibular rami show that they are clearly within the range of the smaller N. dobsoni (Table 5).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Afrosoricida
- Family
- Tenrecidae
- Genus
- Nesogale
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nesogale Thomas, 1918 sec. Denys, Gabriel, Lalis & Jenkins, 2024
References
- Stephenson PJ, Soarimalala V, Goodman S. 2016. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e. T 40592 A 97188634. 30: 694 - 705. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2016 - 1. RLTS. T 40592 A 97188634. en.