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The lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is the only species in the genus Echinops and is named in honour of Charles Telfair. [1] It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, shrubland, and shrubland and dry savanna. [2]
The lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) is one of 16 mammalian species that will have its genome sequenced as part of the Mammalian Genome Project. It is increasingly popular in the pet trade, and in the future may serve as an important model organism in biomedicine, as it is only distantly related to the mice, rats, guinea pigs, and ...
Lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) and giant golden mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani ) Afrosoricida is an order of placental mammals . Members of this order are called afrosoricids, and include golden moles , otter shrews , and tenrecs .
Tenrecinae is a tenrec subfamily endemic to the island of Madagascar. [1] It contains the largest species in the family, Tenrec ecaudatus. [2] All members of the genus possess spines, analogous to those of hedgehogs, for defense against predators.
Lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) Genus Setifer. Greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus) Tribe Tenrecini. Genus Hemicentetes. Highland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes nigriceps) Lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) Genus Tenrec. Common tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) Suborder Chrysochloridea (golden moles) Family ...
Lowland streaked tenrec; Short-tailed shrew tenrec; Cowan's shrew tenrec; Dobson's shrew tenrec; Drouhard's shrew tenrec; Pale shrew tenrec; Gracile shrew tenrec; Microgale grandidieri; Naked-nosed shrew tenrec; Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec; Major's long-tailed tenrec; Pygmy shrew tenrec; Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec; Least shrew tenrec ...
The Czech hedgehog is an antitank defense that, for Americans and Russians alike, evokes images of World War II. Moscow has a monument of Czech hedgehogs to mark the farthest that Nazi soldiers ...
Tenrecomorpha is the suborder of otter shrews and tenrecs, a group of afrotherian mammals indigenous to equatorial Africa and Madagascar, respectively. [2] [3] The two families are thought to have split about 47–53 million years ago.