The four-toed rice tenrec (''Oryzorictes tetradactylus'') is a species of

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

in the family Tenrecidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found 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 found elsew ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical shrubland, grassland, and moist forests, and swamps.

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Afrosoricida Mammals of Madagascar Fauna of the Madagascar subhumid forests Mammals described in 1882 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{afrosoricida-stub