Checkered Elephant Shrew

Checkered Elephant Shrew^[1]

Rhynchocyon cirnei
Peters, 1847

The Checkered Elephant Shrew or Checkered Sengi (Rhynchocyon cirnei) is a species of elephant shrew in the Macroscelididae family.

[edit] Range and habitat

It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and possibly Central African Republic. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.^[2]

Checkered Elephant shrews will mate for life. The pair will defend a territory of a few acres.

The Checkered elephant shrew is primarily an insectivore, eating termites, ants, beetles and centipedes. It also will eat mollusks, eggs and small mammals, amphibians and birds.

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^ Schlitter, Duane A. (2005-11-16). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 84. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
^ ^a ^b Rathbun, G.B. (2006). Rhynchocyon cirnei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.

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Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Infraclass: Eutheria · Superorder: Afrotheria

Elephantulus	Short-snouted Elephant Shrew (E. brachyrhynchus) · Cape Elephant Shrew (E. edwardii) · Dusky-footed Elephant Shrew (E. fuscipes) · Dusky Elephant Shrew (E. fuscus) · Bushveld Elephant Shrew (E. intufi) · Eastern Rock Elephant Shrew (E. myurus) · Somali Elephant Shrew (E. revoili) · North African Elephant Shrew (E. rozeti) · Rufous Elephant Shrew (E. rufescens) · Western Rock Elephant Shrew (E. rupestris)

Macroscelides	Round-eared Elephant Shrew (M. proboscideus)

Petrodromus	Four-toed Elephant Shrew (. tetradactylus)

Rhynchocyon	Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew (R. chrysopygus) · Checkered Elephant Shrew (R. cirnei) · Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew (R. petersi) · Grey-faced Sengi (R. udzungwensis)

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