†Europotamogale[1] Micropotamogale Potamogale Potamogalidae is the family of "otter shrews", a group of semiaquatic riverine afrotherian mammals indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa.

[2] They are most closely related to the tenrecs of Madagascar, from which they are thought to have split about 47–53 million years ago.

[2] All otter shrews are carnivorous, preying on any aquatic animal they can find with their sensitive whiskers, particularly insects.

They have a broad, flat, muzzle that is substantially covered with sensitive whiskers and ends in a leathery pad.

[7][8] Orycteropodidae Macroscelididae Chrysochloridae Potamogalidae Tenrecidae Procaviidae Elephantidae Dugongidae Trichechidae