| Checkered elephant shrew[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Macroscelidea |
| Family: | Macroscelididae |
| Genus: | Rhynchocyon |
| Species: | R. cirnei
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhynchocyon cirnei Peters, 1847
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| Checkered elephant shrew range | |
The chequered sengi (also known as checkered sengi or checkered elephant shrew) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. The scientific name is Rhynchocyon cirnei.
- ^ Schlitter, D.A. (2005). "Order Macroscelidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Hoffmann, M. (2020). "Rhynchocyon cirnei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T19709A166489513. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T19709A166489513.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.