<documentid="F56757715D6F7470E7EEA9300D550EF0"ID-DOI="10.1080/00222933.2024.2370663"ID-ISSN="1464-5262"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13219769"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="carolina"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_approvedBy="carolina"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="carolina"IM.treatments_approvedBy="carolina"checkinTime="1722843533298"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Denys, Christiane, Gabriel, Nadine W., Lalis, Aude & Jenkins, Paulina"docDate="2024"docId="038C87C6FFE5FFE2B1CCFA6EFD70F9FA"docLanguage="en"docName="JNATHIST.58.25-28.796-839.pdf"docOrigin="Journal of Natural History 58 (25 - 28)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2370663"docStyle="DocumentStyle:3C762F9783B768A90048B82ACD135A62.3:JNatHist.2017-.journal_article.0cover"docStyleId="3C762F9783B768A90048B82ACD135A62"docStyleName="JNatHist.2017-.journal_article.0cover"docStyleVersion="3"docTitle="Microgale pusilla Major 1896"docType="treatment"docVersion="1"lastPageNumber="816"masterDocId="FFB5FFBEFFF6FFF6B02CFFB3FF8FFFA2"masterDocTitle="Subfossil rodents and tenrecs of Children’s Cave, Madagascar"masterLastPageNumber="839"masterPageNumber="796"pageNumber="815"updateTime="1723487275992"updateUser="carolina"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
with intact maxillae exhibit the third premolar (P4) in process of eruption (Stage 2 of
<bibRefCitationid="EFB44B21FFE5FFE5B1D1F9C8FD2EF936"author="MacPhee RDE"box="[509,673,1659,1684]"pageId="19"pageNumber="815"pagination="1 - 45"refId="ref15657"refString="MacPhee RDE. 1987. The shrew tenrecs of Madagascar: systematic revision and holocene distribution of Microgale (Tenrecidae, Insectivora). Am Mus Novit. 2889: 1 - 45."type="journal article"year="1987">MacPhee 1987</bibRefCitation>
), in two others the second incisor (I2) or P3 is erupting (MacPhee’s Stage 3) and in
from the Children’s Cave in comparison with modern representatives of the species. Measurements in millimetres. ARL: ascending ramus length; MH: mandible height.
is relatively rarely represented in museum collections and these museum specimens cluster within the lower to mid-part of the range of the Children’s Cave subfossils on ARL (
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were collected by Major from Antsirabe and the surrounding area, which suggests either that the species was not present or poorly represented in the area at that time or that it proved difficult to trap, perhaps because of its small size. Modern methods of standard pitfall trapping at other locations have also shown low abundance for this species where, if present, it is recorded mostly from one and rarely by three or
<bibRefCitationid="EFB44B21FFE2FFE2B431FA64FF59F9B1"author="MacPhee RDE"pageId="20"pageNumber="816"pagination="1 - 45"refId="ref15657"refString="MacPhee RDE. 1987. The shrew tenrecs of Madagascar: systematic revision and holocene distribution of Microgale (Tenrecidae, Insectivora). Am Mus Novit. 2889: 1 - 45."type="journal article"year="1987">MacPhee 1987</bibRefCitation>
). The species has also been recorded from four Central Highlands Protected Areas sites, at Ambohitantely, Tsinjoarivo-Ambalaomby, Ibity and Itremo (
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