SynapsidaMacroscelidea

Rhynchocyon petersi

Black-and-rufous sengi

Rhynchocyon petersi skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, length 29 cm.
Scale bar = 5 centimeters
Taxon
Rhynchocyon petersi Bocage, 1880
Reconstructed length
29 cm (11 inches)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2017, revised 2026
Clade
  1. Synapsida
  2. Therapsida
  3. Mammalia
  4. Placentalia
  5. Afrotheria
  6. Macroscelidea

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The black-and-rufous sengi, a living elephant shrew of East African forests. Despite the name, sengis are afrotherians — closer to elephants and hyraxes than to true shrews — and run on long, slender legs.