Family MACROSCELIDIDAE

(SENGIS)

• Small to very small with mobile snouts; long and slender limbs; very long metatarsals and long tails; and pelage with gray, brown, rufous, white, and golden tones.

• 15-60 cm.

• Palearctic and Afrotropical Regions.

• Mesic forests and woodlands; mesic bushlands; arid and semiarid areas with open canopies and gravel, rock, or compact-sand substrates.

• 5 genera, 20 species, 40 taxa.

• 1 species Endangered, 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.