Galegeeska revoilii (Hüet, 1881:96)

Somali sengi, Somali elephant shrew

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Elephantulus revoilii (Huet, 1881); Elephantulus revoili (Huet, 1881) [orth. error]; Macrocelides revoilii Huet, 1881

Conservation Status

Last record is before 1968.

Since rediscovered (Heritage et al., 2020)

IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient

Distribution

Somalia (northern)

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Hüet, J. (1881). Description d’une nouvelle espèce de Macroscélide. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (7) 5: 95-100

Other references:

Corbet, G. B. and Hanks, J. (1968). A revision of the elephant-shrews, family Macroscelididae. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 16: 1-111.

Heritage, Steven Wade. (2021). Bayesian Phylogenetic Assessments for Enigmatic Taxa from Three Lineages of African Placental Mammals. PhD thesis, Stony Brook University. [Preview]

Heritage, Steven Wade, Rayaleh, H., Awaleh, D. G. and Rathbun, G. B. (2020). New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa. PeerJ 8: e9652. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9652

Kennerley, R.J., Lacher, T.E. Jr., Mason, V., McCay, S., Roach, N., Stephenson, P.J., Superina, M. and Young, R.P. (2018). Conservation priorities and actions for the Orders Cingulata, Pilosa, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Eulipotyphla, Dermoptera and Scandentia, pp. 15-27. In: Wilson, D. E. and Mittermeier, R. A. (eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 8. Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.

Krásová, Jarmila 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12460 [Abstract]

Rathbun, G. B. (2015). Elephantulus revoilii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T7137A21290721. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T7137A21290721.en. Downloaded on 25 April 2017.

Stephenson, P. J. (2017). Small mammal monitoring: why we need more data on the Afrotheria. Afrotherian Conservation 13: 34-42.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/22309/elephantulus-revoilii

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53820395

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