Hemigalus Jourdan 1837

Hemigalus Jourdan 1837, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 5: 442.

Type Species: Hemigalus zebra Jourdan 1837

Synonyms: Hemigale Gray 1865; Hemigalea Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and de Blainville 1837 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species with 4 subspecies:

Species Hemigalus derbyanus Gray 1837

Subspecies Hemigalus derbyanus subsp. derbyanus Gray 1837

Subspecies Hemigalus derbyanus subsp. boiei Müller 1838

Subspecies Hemigalus derbyanus subsp. minor Miller 1903

Subspecies Hemigalus derbyanus subsp. sipora Chasen and Kloss 1927

Discussion: Corbet and Hill (1992) included Chrotogale but excluded Diplogale . There is little question that these three taxa represent a monophyletic group and few would question that Diplogale is more closely related to Hemigalus than Chrotogale . Molecular studies by Veron and Heard (2000) supported the separation of Hemigalus and Chrotogale .