title: Macroscelides
text: # Macroscelides
  
  Macroscelides is a genus of small shrew-like animals, the round-eared sengis (also called elephant shrews), found in western Namibia and in South Africa; they are members of the clade Afrotheria.
  
  There are three known species:
  
  * Namib round-eared sengi, Macroscelides flavicaudatus
  * Etendaka round-eared sengi, Macroscelides micus, which is only found in gravel plains in the Etendaka formation of north-west Namibia
  * Karoo round-eared sengi, or short-eared elephant shrew, Macroscelides proboscideus
  