Educational resources on Aquatic Tenrec

Aquatic Tenrec or Limnogale mergulus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to B1+2c. IUCN Profile of the Aquatic Tenrec

Academic web links for the Aquatic Tenrec.

Institute of Arctic Biology - IAB Home
12 November 2009: Mongabay.como Forgotten species: Madagascar's water-loving mammal, the aquatic tenrec Go » Link Olson/UAM/IAB/UAF
www.iab.uaf.edu

Diet, activity patterns, foraging movement and responses to ...
Diet, activity patterns, foraging movement and responses to deforestation of the aquatic tenrec Limnogalemergulus (Lipotyphla: Tenrecidae) in eastern Madagascar JonathanP.
bama.ua.edu/~jbenstead/Publications_files/J.%20Zool.%202001%20copy.pdf

ADW: Limnogale mergulus: Information
Limnogale mergulus aquatic tenrec ... L. mergulus is found only in regions of fast-flowing streams on steep sloping
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Limnogale_mergulus.html

UA Museum | Kyndall Hildebrandt
Madagascar Research Phylogeography and and conservation genetics of the aquatic tenrec (Limnogale mergulus) using DNA extracted from fecal pellets.
www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/mammal/staff/hildebrandt

ADW: Tenrecidae: Classification
... aquatic tenrec)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Tenrecidae.html

Limnogale mergulus
Limnogale mergulus Aquatic Tenrec Identification A small tenrec, and the only one that lives in the water, the hind feet are webbed, and the tail flattened (to aid swimming).
icte.bio.sunysb.edu/rano.biodiv/Mammals/Limnogale-mergulus/index.html

Institute of Arctic Biology - IAB in the News
11/13/2009: BBC World Service - Science in Action Polar Thaws (story begins at 6:50 ... Forgotten species: Madagascar's water-loving mammal, the aquatic tenrec
www.iab.uaf.edu/news/in_the_news.php

Yale Peabody Museum: Vertebrate Zoology: Mammal Collections
...and includes one of only 7 complete skeletons of the now extinct quagga, a large series of bison skulls from the 1870s, and one of the few known skeletons of aquatic tenrec and
www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/vz/mamcoll.html

ADW: Oryzorictinae: Classification
... aquatic tenrec)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Oryzorictinae.html

Publications
Diet, activity patterns, foraging movement and responses to deforestation of the aquatic tenrec Limnogale mergulus (Lipotyphla: Tenrecidae) in eastern Madagascar.
bama.ua.edu/~jbenstead/Publications.html