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Afrosoricida
order of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Afrosoricida is an order of mammals, which includes the Tenrecs and the Golden mole.[1] Tenrecs look like hedgehogs in appearance. Golden moles look like moles. Sequence analysis found that these animals are not closely related to other insectivores.
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Afrosoricida[1] | |
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Tailless tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Superorder: | Afrotheria |
Order: | Afrosoricida Stanhope et al., 1998 |
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Chrysochloridea |
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Some biologists use Tenrecomorpha as the name for the tenrec-golden mole clade, but Gary Bronner and Paulina Jenkins argue that Afrosoricida is more appropriate, despite their misgivings about the similarity between the name "Afrosoricida" and the unrelated shrew subgenus Afrosorex.[1]