Lowland Streaked Tenrec

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia (multicellular;eukaryote)

Phylum: Chordata (has vertebrae)

Class: Mammalia (warm-blooded, has hair, three ear bones, mammary glands)

Order: Afrosoricida (looks like African shrew)

Family: Tenrecidae (tenrec)

Genus: Hemicentetes (streaked tenrec)

Species: Semispinosus

Phylogenetic Tree of Hemicentetes semispinosus

Information from figure above taken from http://tolweb.org/.

 http://tolweb.org/Life_on_Earth/1

Information from figure above taken from http://tolweb.org/.  

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