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Soricomorpha
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The order Soricomorpha ("Shrew-form") is a biological clade within the class of mammals. In previous years it formed a significant group within the Insectivora order. However, that order was shown to be paraphyletic and various new orders were split off from it, including Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews), and Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs and gymnures), leaving just four families as shown here, leaving Insectivora empty and disbanded.[1]
- ORDER SORICOMORPHA
- Family Soricidae
- Subfamily Crocidurinae: white-toothed shrews
- Subfamily Soricinae: red-toothed shrews
- Subfamily Myosoricinae: African white-toothed shrews
- Family Talpidae: moles
- Subfamily Scalopinae
- Subfamily Talpinae
- Subfamily Uropsilinae
- Family Solenodontidae: solenodons
- Family †Nesophontidae: West Indian shrews
- Family Soricidae
References
- ^ a b Hutterer, Rainer (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 220-311. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
| Extant mammal orders by infraclass | |
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| Australosphenida | Monotremata |
| Metatheria | Didelphimorphia · Paucituberculata · Microbiotheria · Notoryctemorphia · Dasyuromorphia · Peramelemorphia · Diprotodontia |
| Eutheria | Afrosoricida · Macroscelidea · Tubulidentata ·
Hyracoidea · Proboscidea · Sirenia · Cingulata · Pilosa ·
Scandentia · |
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