🦋 Family

Tenrecidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Afrosoricida › Tenrecidae

Echinops telfairi, the lesser hedgehog tenrec, is a small, hedgehog-like animal with spines and a cloaca.

The lowland streaked tenrec is a small tenrec found only in lowland areas of northern and eastern Madagascar.

Tenrec ecaudatus, the common tailless tenrec, is a large introduced Malagasy mammal in the tenrec family with unusually large litters.

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Chrysochloridae 2 species

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