Order

Eulipotyphla (Shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and allies)

Sorex vagrans. Photo: (c) Patricia Teague, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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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.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
    - Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
      - Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
        Subclass: Theria (Therians)
        Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
        Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
        Order: Eulipotyphla (Shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and allies)
        Family: Talpidae (Moles and desmans) (3)
        Family: Soricidae (Shrews) (3)

Subtaxa

Family: Talpidae (Moles and desmans)

Family: Soricidae (Shrews)

Where in Humboldt

Discussion

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