Order

Eulipotyphla (Shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and allies)

Scapanus latimanus. Photo: (c) Bob Dodge, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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

Where in Humboldt



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