Elephant screws or jumpin screws are smaa insectivorous mammals hamelt in Africae, belangin tae the faimily Macroscelididae, in the order Macroscelidea, whose tradeetional common Inglis name comes frae a fancied resemblance atween thair lang noses an the trunk o an elephant, an an assumed relationship wi the screws (faimily Soricidae) in the order Insectivora.
| Elephant screws[1] | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Short-eared elephant screw (Macroscelides proboscideus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Infracless: | Eutheria |
| Superorder: | Afrotheria |
| (unranked): | Afroinsectiphilia |
| Order: | Macroscelidea Butler, 1956 |
| Faimily: | Macroscelididae Bonaparte, 1838 |
| Genera | |
|
Elephantulus | |
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