Afroinsectivora

Afroinsectivora is a clade of mammals that includes the macroscelideans and afrosoricidans.^[1] This clade includes the elephant shrews, golden moles, tenrecs, and otter shrews.

Afroinsectivora
Taxidermied animals at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, England. On the left four-toed elephant shrew (Petrodromus tetradactylus), in the middle Cape golden mole (Chrysochloris asiatica) and on the right greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus).
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Grandorder:	Afroinsectiphilia
Mirorder:	Afroinsectivora Waddell, Kishino & Ota 2001
Orders
Macroscelidea Afrosoricida

Phylogeny

Afrotheria Paenungulata Hyracoidea Procaviidae Tethytheria Sirenia Trichechidae Dugongidae Proboscidea Elephantidae Afroinsectiphilia Tubulidentata Orycteropodidae Afroinsectivora Macroscelidea Macroscelididae Afrosoricida Chrysochloridae Tenrecomorpha Potamogalidae Tenrecidae

A cladogram of Afrotheria based on molecular evidence[2]

Classification

• Clade Afroinsectivora
  • Order Macroscelidea
    • Family Macroscelididae
  • Order Afrosoricida
    • Family Chrysochloridae
    • Family Tenrecidae
    • Family Potamogalidae
    • Genus †Widanelfarasia?

Notes

1. Afroinsectivora in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved September 2017.
2. Tabuce, R.; Asher, R. J.; Lehmann, T. (2008). "Afrotherian mammals: a review of current data" (PDF). Mammalia. 72: 2–14. doi:10.1515/MAMM.2008.004. S2CID 46133294. Archived from the original on May 17, 2014.

References

• Waddell, P.J.; Kishino, H.; Ota, R. (2001). "A phylogenetic foundation for comparative mammalian genomics". Genome Informatics. 12: 141–154. PMID 11791233.