Within the subfamily of ‘Real tenrecs’ there’s ony 5 species. However, there’s also a subfamily of Rice tenrecs, a subfamily of Earth tenrecs, a subfamily of Otter shrews and a subfamily of Lesser otter shrews. All of these are within the family of Tenrecs and include a total of 33 species. These do not include extinct species.
Geogalinae
Geogale
- Large-eared tenrec
Tenrecinae
Echinops
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Hemicentetes
- Highland streaked tenrec
- Lowland streaked tenrec
Setifer
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
Tenrec
- Common tenrec
Oryzorictinae
Microgale
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec
- Dryad shrew tenrec
- Pale shrew tenrec
- Gracile shrew tenrec
- Grandidier’s shrew tenrec
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec
- Jenkins’s shrew tenrec
- Northern shrew tenrec
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec
- Major’s long-tailed tenrec
- Web-footed tenrec
- Montane shrew tenrec
- Nasolo’s shrew tenrec
- Pygmy shrew tenrec
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec
- Least shrew tenrec
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec
- Taiva shrew tenrec
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec
Nesogale
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
Oryzorictes
- Mole-like rice tenrec
- Four-toed rice tenrec