Afrosoricida

Afrosoricida; Temporal range: Early Miocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Tailless tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Superorder:	Afrotheria
Order:	Afrosoricida; Stanhope et al., 1998
Suborders
	Chrysochloridea; Tenrecomorpha

Afrosoricida is an order of mammals, which includes the Tenrecs and the Golden mole.^[1] Tenrecs look like hedgehogs in appearance. Golden moles look like moles. Sequence analysis found that these animals are not closely related to other insectivores.

Some biologists use Tenrecomorpha as the name for the tenrec-golden mole clade, but Gary Bronner and Paulina Jenkins argue that Afrosoricida is more appropriate, despite their misgivings about the similarity between the name "Afrosoricida" and the unrelated shrew subgenus Afrosorex.^[1]

References[change | change source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Bronner G.N. & Jenkins P.D. (2005), "Order Afrosoricida", in D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (ed.), Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 71–81, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, OCLC 62265494

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[msw3-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Bronner G.N. & Jenkins P.D. (2005), "Order Afrosoricida", in D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (ed.), Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 71–81, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, OCLC 62265494

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