Tenrecidae

Relationships after Asher and Hofreiter 2006.

Other Names for Tenrecidae

• tenrecs
• Madagascar "hedgehogs"

References

Asher, R. J. 2001. Cranial anatomy in tenrecid insectivorans: Character evolution across competing phylogenies. American Museum Novitates 3352:1–54.

Asher, R. J. and M. Hofreiter. 2006. Tenrec phylogeny and the noninvasive extraction of nuclear DNA. Systematic Biology 55(2):181-194.

Benstead, J. P., and L. E. Olson. 2003. Limnogale mergulus, web-footed tenrec or aquatic tenrec. Pages 1267–1273 in The Natural History of Madagascar. S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Butler, P. M. 1984. Macroscelidea, Insectivora, and Chiroptera from the Miocene of East Africa. Palaeovertebrata 14:117–200.

Douady, C. J., F. Catzeflis, D. J. Kao, M. S. Springer, and M. J. Stanhope. 2002. Molecular evidence for the monophyly of Tenrecidae (Mammalia) and the timing of the colonization of Madagascar by Malagasy tenrecs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22:357–363.

Douady, C. J., F. Catzeflis, M. S. Springer, and M. J. Stanhope. 2003. Molecular evidence for the monophyly of Tenrecidae: A reply to Asher. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26:331–332.

Eisenberg, J. F., and E. Gould. 1970. The tenrecs: A study in mammalian behavior and evolution. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 27:1–137.

Mouchaty S. K., A. Gullberg, A. Janke, and U. Arnason. 2000. Phylogenetic position of the tenrecs (Mammalia: Tenrecidae) of Madagascar based on analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Echinops telfairi. Zoologica Scripta 29:307–317.

Olson, L. E., and S. M. Goodman. 2003. Phylogeny and biogeography of tenrecs. Pages 1235–1242 in The Natural History of Madagascar. S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Poux, C., O. Madsen, E. Marquard, D. R. Vieites, W. W. de Jong, and M. Vences. 2005. Asynchronous Colonization of Madagascar by the Four Endemic Clades of Primates, Tenrecs, Carnivores, and Rodents as Inferred from Nuclear Genes. Systematic Biology 54(5):719–730.

Poux, C., O. Madsen, J. Glos, W. W. de Jong, and M. Vences. 2008. Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of Malagasy tenrecs: influence of data partitioning and taxon sampling on dating analyses. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:102. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-102

Salton, J., and F. S. Szalay. 2004. The tarsal complex of Afro-Malagasy Tenrecoidea: A search for phylogenetically meaningful characters. J. Mamm. Evol. 11:73–104.

Information on the Internet

• Family Tenrecidae. University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web.
• University of Texas Digimorph:
  • Lowland Streaked Tenrec Skeleton
  • Lowland Streaked Tenrec Head