The short-tailed shrew tenrec (''Microgale brevicaudata'') is a species of

mammal A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the Class (biology), class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three ...

in the family Tenrecidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical dry and moist lowland forests.

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Afrosoricida Mammals of Madagascar Mammals described in 1899 Taxa named by Guillaume Grandidier Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{afrosoricida-stub