Macroscelididae
Macroscelididae sunt parva mammalia insectivora quae in Africa endemica sunt, ad ordinem Macroscelideorum pertinentia. Quia eorum nasi producti proboscidibus elephantidarum similes, atque eorum corpus corpori mammalium familiae Soricidarum similia videri possunt, appellantur in variis linguis soricidae elephantinae.

Latissime distribuuntur trans meridianam Africae regionem, et, quamquam frequentia nusquam, inveni possunt in paene omni habitationis genere, a Desertis Namibianis ad terram saxosam in Africa Australi et ad silvas densas. Una species, Petrosaltator rozeti, in desertis montanis et semiaridis in septentrio et occidentali continentis regione manet.

Hoc est unum e celerrimis mammalibus parvis, quod usque ad 28.8 chiliometra per horam currere potest.
Macroscelididae plerumque insectis, araneis, chilopodis, diplopodis, megadrilaceisque vescuntur. Naso ad praedam reperiendam, linguaque ad parvum cibum in os excutiendum utuntur, vermilinguis simillimae.

Phylogenia

Classificatio 

Undeviginti species macroscelididarum in quinque genera digeruntur, quorum duo sunt monotypica:

 ORDO MACROSCELIDEA
 Familia Macroscelididae
 Genus Elephantulus
 Elephantidae brachyrhynchus
 Elephantidae edwardii
 Elephantidae fuscipes
 Elephantidae fuscus
 Elephantidae intufi
 Elephantidae myurus
 Elephantidae pilicaudus
 Elephantidae revoili
 Elephantidae rufescens
 Elephantidae rupestris
 Genus Macroscelides
 Macroscelides flavicaudatus
 Macroscelides micus
 Macroscelides proboscideus
 Genus Petrodromus
 Petrodromus tetradactylus
 Genus Petrosaltator
 Petrosaltator rozeti
 Genus Rhynchocyon
 Rhynchocyon chrysopygus
 Rhynchocyon cirnei
 Rhynchocyon petersi
 Rhynchocyon udzungwensis

Notae

Bibliographia 
Coldiron, Ronn W. 1977. On the jaw musculature and relationships of Petrodromus tetradactylus (Mammalia, Macroscelidea). Novi Eboraci: American Museum of Natural History.
Lawson, L. P., C. Vernesi, S. Ricci, et F. Rovero. 2013. Evolutionary History of the Grey-Faced Sengi, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, from Tanzania: A Molecular and Species Distribution Modelling Approach. PLoS ONE 8(8): e72506. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072506.
Murata Y., M. Nikaido, T. Sasaki, Y. Cao, Y. Fukumoto, M. Hasegawa, et N. Okada. 2003. Afrotherian phylogeny as inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetic Evolution 28(2): 253–60.
Murphy, W. J., E. Eizirik, W. E. Johnson, Y. P. Zhang, O. A. Ryder, et S. J. O'Brien. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals. Nature 409(6820): 614–18.
Patterson, Bryan. 1965. The fossil elephant shrews (family Macroscelididae). Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology Bulletin 133( 6). Cantabrigiae Massachusettae: Printed for the Museum.
Rovero, Francesco, et Galen Rathbun. 2006. A Potentially New Giant Sengi (Elephant-Shrew) from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History 95(2): 111–15. PDF.
Tabuce, R., L. Marivaux, M. Adaci, M. Bensalah, J. L. Hartenberger, M. Mahboubi, F. Mebrouk, P. Tafforeau, et J. J. Jaeger. 2007. Early Tertiary mammals from North Africa reinforce the molecular Afrotheria clade. Proceedings of Biological Science 274(1614): 1159–66.

Nexus externi 

Shrew. African Wildlife Foundation.
Sengis (Elephant-Shrews. California Academy of Sciences. Archivum, 10 Maii 2013.
New Species Of Giant Elephant-shrew Discovered. Science Daily, Februario 2008.
New sengi species is related to an elephant, but small as a mouse. Los Angeles Times, 1 Iunii 2014.

 
Familiae animalium
Fossilia viva
Mammalia Africae