Hemicentetes

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| image = Lowland Streaked Tenrec, Mantadia, Madagascar.jpg

| image_caption = Lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus)

| taxon = Hemicentetes

| authority = Mivart, 1871

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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|Hemicentetes nigriceps{{!}}H. nigriceps|Günther, 1875

|Hemicentetes semispinosus{{!}}H. semispinosus|(G. Cuvier, 1798)}}

| range_map = Hemicentetes Range.jpg

| type_species = Ericulus semispinosus

| type_species_authority = G. Cuvier, 1798

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| synonyms = {{genus list

|Centetes|Schinz & Brodtmann, 1827

|Echinodes|Pomel, 1848

|Ericius|Giebel, 1871

|Ericus|Bergroth, 1902

|Eteocles|Gray, 1821}}

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Hemicentetes is a genus of tenrec with two species, present on the island of Madagascar.

Geographic Range

There are two species in the genus Hemicentetes, H. semispinosus and H. nigriceps both are found only on Madagascar. Lowland streaked tenrecs (H. semispinosus) are found in the rainforests on the east side of the island and highland streaked tenrecs (H. nigriceps) are found in humid forest and plateau savanna boundary habitat in the central upland portion of Madagascar.

Habitat

Lowland streaked tenrecs (H. semispinosus) are found in tropical rainforest habitats while highland streaked tenrecs (H. nigriceps) are found in both tropical rainforest and savanna habitats. Their ranges were not thought to overlap, but they were found coexisting in the widely varied habitat of Mahatsinjo Forest in 2000, which led researchers to believe that they were separate species rather than subspecies.

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Mivart |first1=St. George |title=On Hemicentetes, a new Genus of Insectivora, with some Additional Remarks on the Osteology of that Order |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1871 |volume=1871 |pages=58–79 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1871.tb00471.x |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28553852}}

{{cite journal |last1=Marshall |first1=Christopher D. |last2=Eisenberg |first2=John F. |title=Hemicentetes semispinosus |journal=Mammalian Species |date=1996 |issue=541 |pages=1–4 |doi=10.2307/3504327|doi-access=|jstor=3504327}}

{{cite journal |last1=Goodman |first1=S. M. |last2=Rakontondravony |first2=D. |last3=Soarimalala |first3=V. |last4=Duchemin |first4=J. B. |last5=Duplantier |first5=J.-M. |title=Syntopic occurrence of Hemicentetes semispinosus and H. nigriceps (Lipotyphla : Tenrecidae) on the Central Highlands of Madagascar |department = Notes |journal=Mammalia |date=2000 |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=113–116 |doi=10.1515/mamm.2000.64.1.113}}

{{cite journal |last1=Stephenson |first1=P. J. |title=Species Profile: Streaked tenrecs, Hemicentetes |journal=Afrotherian Conservation: Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Afrotheria Specialist Group |date=2007 |volume=5 |pages=1–3 |url=http://www.afrotheria.net/Afrotherian_Conservation_5.pdf |id={{BHL page|56294871}}}}

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Category:Afrosoricida

Category:Mammal genera

Category:Taxa named by St. George Jackson Mivart