The Stuhlmann's sengi or white-tailed sengi (''Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni'') is a species of

elephant shrew Elephant shrews, also called jumping shrews or sengis, are small insectivore, insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, in the order (biology), order Macroscelidea. Their traditional common English name "ele ...

that lives in the forests and

savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach th ...

s of Africa. It was discovered in 1893 and declared a new species. In the 1960s, however, it was downgraded to a subspecies of checkered sengi (''Rhynchocyon cirnei''). In 2018, following genetic tests, scientists re-evaluated the mammal as a full species again. The sengi is named after Franz Stuhlmann, a German zoologist, whose name is also found on a variety of other Central African species and subspecies, including Stuhlmann's golden mole (''Chrysochloris stuhlmanni''), Stuhlmann's double-collared sunbird (''Cinnyris stuhlmanni''), Stuhlmann's starling (''Poeoptera stuhlmanni''), Stuhlmann's weaver (''Ploceus baglafecht stuhlmanni''), and Stuhlmann's blue monkey (''Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni'').

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Elephant shrews Mammals described in 1893 Taxa named by Paul Matschie Mammals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mammals of Uganda {{macroscelidea-stub