No, that's not analogous to jumbo shrimp. Scientists recently (if you call 3 years ago "recently") discovered what is now known to be the world's largest elephant shrew. They found it in Tanzania. (That's in Africa, for the geographically challenged.) It took a year to positively identify it properly, but that still seems like a long time to wait to make the formal announcement.
Even though the little critter is about the size of a squirrel, scientists claim that it's more closely related to the elephant that to true shrews. Don't look for them to be cross-bred anytime soon though.
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