Tenrec
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| A tenrec is a mammal belonging to any species within the afrotherian family Tenrecidae, which is endemic to Madagascar. Tenrecs are a very diverse group, as a result of adaptive radiation, and exhibit convergent evolution, some resemble hedgehogs, shrews, opossums, rats, and mice. They occupy aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial, and fossorial environments.
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 Lowland streaked tenrec
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Lowland streaked tenrec
| phylum | Chordata | The lowland streaked tenrec is a small tenrec found in tropical lowland rain forests in northern and eastern parts of Madagascar. The average body size for H. semispinosus is a length of 140 mm (5.5 in), but adults have been recorded to grow up to a maximum of 172 mm (6.8 in). It has a black, spiny pelage with yellow or chestnut-brown stripes that run the length of the body. A median yellow stripe runs down the rostrum along with one dorsal and two lateral stripes that mark the length of the body and may serve as a warning to predators. Quills are present in this species, and are longer and more numerous on the head and nuchal area. The ventral region contains few to no quills, but quills do have the ability to detach in predation defense.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Afrosoricida | |
| family | Tenrecidae | |
| species | Hemicentetes semispinosus |
