Order

Eulipotyphla (Shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and allies)

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Eulipotyphla (“truly fat and blind”) is an order of mammals suggested by molecular methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, and includes the laurasiatherian members of the now-invalid polyphyletic order Lipotyphla, but not the afrotherian members (tenrecs and golden moles, now in their own order Afrosoricida). Lipotyphla in turn had been derived by removing a number of groups from Insectivora, the previously used wastebasket taxon.

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Subtaxa

Family: Talpidae (Moles and desmans)

Family: Soricidae (Shrews)

Where in Humboldt

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