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Galegeeska rufescens
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Rufous Elephant Shrew

Galegeeska rufescens (Peters, 1878)

Also calledRufous Sengi (eng)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
Africa
Also published as
Elephantulus rufescens (Peters, 1878); Macroscelides rufescens Peters, 1878
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Heritage, Steven, Houssein Rayaleh, Djama G. Awaleh, and Galen B. Rathbun. (2020). New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa. PeerJ, Vol. 8, No. E9652.
  • Krásová, Jarmila, Ondrej Mikula, Radim Sumbera, Sylvie Horáková, Jan Robovsky, et al. (2021). The Rufous Sengi is not Elephantulus - Multilocus reconstruction of evolutionary history of sengis from the subfamily Macroscelidinae. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Vol. 59, No. 4.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.