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Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles)

Synonyms: Insectivora

Wikipedia Abstract

The order Afrosoricida (a Latin-Greek compound name which means "looking like African shrews") contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa. These two families of small mammals have traditionally been considered to be a part of the order Insectivora, a wastebasket taxon, and were later included in Lipotyphla after Insectivora was abandoned, before Lipotyphla was also found to be polyphyletic.
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Family

Chrysochloridae (golden moles) (29)   (6)
Plesiorycteropodidae (3)
Tenrecidae (tenrecs) (46)   (2)

Genus

Eochrysochloris (1)
Jawharia (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0