Order Insectivora Author Rainer Hutterer text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 69 130 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085 1-56098-217-9 7353085 Suncus madagascariensis (Coquerel, 1848) . Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (Paris), (3)9:194, pl. 11, fig. 1 . TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar , Nossi-Bé . DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar and Comores Isis. STATUS: Unresolved. SYNONYMS: coquerelii. COMMENTS: This species is often included in etruscus but treated as a full species in most reports on the fauna of Madagascar (e.g., Eisenberg and Gould, 1984 ).