Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2022

INTRODUCED TERRESTRIAL SMALL MAMMALS

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As one of the world’s biodiversity centers, Madagascar represents a cradle of unique vertebrate species, and terrestrial mammals represent a good example. Of the nonvolant small mammal species occurring on the island, including 28 species of the endemic subfamily of rodents, Nesomyinae, and 31 species of the endemic family Tenrecidae (see Goodman and Soarimalala, pp. 1737–69), only three rodent species of the order Rodentia (family Muridae) and two shrew species of the order Soricomorpha (family Soricidae) have been unintentionally introduced by humans (Figure 14.30). The three rodent species are Rattus rattus (Black Rat), R. norvegicus (Brown Rat)...

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hal-05076104 , version 1 (20-05-2025)

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B. Ramasindrazana, T. M. Randriamoria, S. Rahelinirina, Jean-Bernard Duchemin, J.-M. Duplantier, et al.. INTRODUCED TERRESTRIAL SMALL MAMMALS. Edited by Steven M. Goodman. The New Natural History of Madagascar, 14. Mammals, Princeton University Press, pp.1872-1880, 2022, 9780691222622. ⟨10.2307/j.ctv2ks6tbb.259⟩. ⟨hal-05076104⟩
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