Nesogale Thomas, 1918

Denys, Christiane, Gabriel, Nadine W., Lalis, Aude & Jenkins, Paulina, 2024, Subfossil rodents and tenrecs of Children’s Cave, Madagascar, Journal of Natural History 58 (25 - 28), pp. 796-839 : 817

Genus Nesogale Thomas, 1918

This genus, originally included in the genus Microgale , is distinguished from the latter by morphological and molecular differences, and is represented by two species, Nesogale dobsoni (Thomas, 1884) and N. talazaci (Major, 1896) . Both species, listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List ( Stephenson et al. 2016), are widely distributed, with a broad latitudinal range in moist evergreen forest and, while both occur in the Central Highlands, N. dobsoni is apparently more tolerant of fringe habitat of fragmented forest and marshland. The two species are distinguished by the greater size of N. talazaci . Measurements of the subfossil mandibular rami show that they are clearly within the range of the smaller N. dobsoni ( Table 5).