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Erinaceidae
Soricidae
Talpidae
Solenodontidae
Nesophontidae A order Insectivora (from Latin insectum "insect" and vorare "to eat") it utilized to be that was used as the scrapbasket for a kind of microscopic to super little, comparatively unspecialised, insectivorous mammalian. A taxonomy has been refined inside recent years, & tree shrews, elephant shrews, and colugos have currently been positioned around separate orders. Molecular grounds to believe as well indicates that golden moles and tenrecs should be separated as a fresh sequentially Afrosoricida comprising Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and Tenrecidae (tenrecs). More grounds to believe nowadays indicates that possibly Erinaceidae (hedgehogs) and Solenodontidae+Nesophontidae should besides become situated around separate orders.

Traditionally, a golden moles of southern Africa & a tendrac of Madagascar & Africa were grouped by owning a hedgehogs, shrews & moles in the Lipotyphla. But there stand universally been minority opinions suggesting that Tenrecomorpha, or even at least a golden moles, are non avowedly Lipotyphlans.

Sequentially INSECTIVORA Personal Erinaceidae Subfamily Erinaceinae: hedgehogs Subfamily Hylomyinae: moonrats and gymnures Personal Soricidae Subfamily Crocidurinae: white-toothed shrews Subfamily Soricinae: red-toothed shrews Subfamily Myosoricinae: African white-toothed shrews Personal Talpidae Subfamily Desmaninae: desmans Subfamily Talpinae: moles Subfamily Uropsilinae: shrew moles Personal Solenodontidae: solenodons Personal Nesophontidae: extinct West Indian shrews

These families use been located in Insectivora it used to be that: Personal Chrysochloridae (golden moles) Personal Tenrecidae (tenrecs) Personal Macroscelididae (elephant shrews) Personal Tupaiidae (tree shrews) Personal Cynocephalidae (colugos)

Does'nt to exist as confused by using insectivores (the eaters of insects considered as an ecological niche), not a lot of which belong to the Choose Insectivora.

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Order Insectivora
Introduction to the Order Insectivora, from Animal Diversity Web.