Biology:Mole-like rice tenrec
| Mole-like rice tenrec[1] | |
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| in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Afrosoricida |
| Suborder: | Tenrecomorpha |
| Family: | Tenrecidae |
| Genus: | Oryzorictes |
| Species: | O. hova
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| Binomial name | |
| Oryzorictes hova A. Grandidier, 1870
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| Mole-like rice tenrec range | |
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Oryzorictes talpoides G. Grandidier & Petit, 1930 | |
The mole-like rice tenrec (Oryzorictes hova), also known as the fossorial tenrec or hova rice tenrec, is a species of mammal in the tenrec family. Like all other tenrecs, it is endemic to Madagascar . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist forests, swamps, freshwater lakes, and irrigated or seasonally flooded agricultural land.[2]
Biology
Oryzorictes hova eats insects like worms, and they spend some of their time above ground but mostly stay underground. They can also be found in rice fields.[3] Not much is known about their mating or reproduction, but the most offspring they have is 4.[4]
Due to allopatric speciation, the rice tenrec has been separated into 3 distinct populations across Madagascar. Each of these populations could be considered their own distinct species, but additional data is required for a formal description of the species.[5]
References
- ↑ Bronner, G.N.; Jenkins, P.D. (2005). "Order Afrosoricida". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=11100032.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stephenson, P.J.; Soarimalala, V.; Goodman, S. (2016). "Oryzorictes hova". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T40589A97203050. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T40589A97203050.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/40589/97203050. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ Stephenson, P.J. (1993). "Reproductive Biology of the Large-Eared Tenrec, Geogale aurita (Insectivora : Tenrecidae)". Mammalia 57 (4). doi:10.1515/mamm.1993.57.4.553. ISSN 0025-1461.
- ↑ Enders, A.C.; Blankenship, T.N.; Goodman, S.M.; Soarimalala, V.; Carter, A.M. (July 2007). "Placental Diversity in Malagasy Tenrecs: Placentation in Shrew Tenrecs (Microgale spp.), The Mole-Like Rice Tenrec (Oryzorictes hova) and The Web-Footed Tenrec (Limnogale mergulus)". Placenta 28 (7): 748–759. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2006.10.003. ISSN 0143-4004. PMID 17113148.
- ↑ Everson, Kathryn M.; Hildebrandt, Kyndall B. P.; Goodman, Steven M.; Olson, Link E. (2018-09-01). "Caught in the act: Incipient speciation across a latitudinal gradient in a semifossorial mammal from Madagascar, the mole tenrec Oryzorictes hova (Tenrecidae)" (in en). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126: 74–84. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.024. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 29501374.
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