The clade Afrosoricida (a Latin-Greek compound name which means "looking like African shrews") contains the golden moles of Southern Africa, the otter shrews of equatorial Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar. These three groups of small mammals were for most of the 19th and 20th centuries regarded as a part of the Insectivora or Lipotyphla, but both of those groups, as traditionally used, are polyphyletic.
The clade Afrosoricida (a Latin-Greek compound name which means "looking like African shrews") contains the golden moles of Southern Africa, the otter...
found in Madagascar. It belongs to the family Tenrecidae in the order Afrosoricida, and more specifically to the subfamily of the spiny tenrecs Tenrecinae...
Tenrecomorpha, while others call it Afrosoricida and reserve Tenrecomorpha for the family Tenrecidae. ORDER AFROSORICIDA Suborder Tenrecomorpha Family Tenrecidae:...
members (tenrecs, golden moles, and otter shrews, now in their own order Afrosoricida). Eulipotyphla comprises the hedgehogs and gymnures (family Erinaceidae...
those in the second column in some other articles: The afrotherian order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles and otter shrews of sub-Saharan Africa and...
Macroscelidea: elephant shrews (northwest and sub-Saharan Africa) Order Afrosoricida: otter shrews, tenrecs and golden moles (sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar)...
Venomous mammals are animals of the class Mammalia that produce venom, which they use to kill or disable prey, to defend themselves from predators or conspecifics...
of great diversity. The other members of this cohort are the orders Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews) and Tubulidentata...
related to Tenrec ecaudatus. Bronner, G.N.; Jenkins, P.D. (2005). "Order Afrosoricida". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A...
The following is a list of largest mammals by family. The largest of these insectivorous mammals is the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox), native to...
Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species Critically endangered (CR): 203 species Endangered (EN): 505 species Vulnerable (VU): 536 species Near threatened...
There are currently 1,258 genera, 161 families, 27 orders, and around 5,937 recognized living species of mammal. Mammalian taxonomy is in constant flux...
Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species Critically endangered (CR): 203 species Endangered (EN): 505 species Vulnerable (VU): 536 species Near threatened...
polyphyletic and various new orders were split off from it, including Afrosoricida (tenrecs, golden moles, otter shrews), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)...
Afroinsectivora (elephant shrews, golden moles, otter shrews, and tenrecs) Order Afrosoricida (tenrecs, otter shrews, and golden moles) Order Macroscelidea (elephant...
clade Afroinsectivora order Macroscelidea family Macroscelididae order Afrosoricida family Chrysochloridae family Tenrecidae family Potamogalidae Afroinsectivora...
following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar...
following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar...
following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar...
following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar...
following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar...
Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species Critically endangered (CR): 203 species Endangered (EN): 505 species Vulnerable (VU): 536 species Near threatened...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Seychelles. Of the mammal species in the Seychelles, two are critically endangered and two are vulnerable...
assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar...
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