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    The order Insectivora (from Latin insectum "insect" and vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals. Some species...
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    now-abandoned order Insectivora. As a result, Eulipotyphla (shrew-like animals, including moles), previously within Insectivora, has been elevated to...
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    an order called Insectivora. This order is now abandoned, as not all insectivorous mammals are closely related. Most of the Insectivora taxa have been...
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    Wasserspitzmaus, Neomys fodiens (Insectivora: Soricidae)" [On vocalization of the european water shrew Neomys fodiens (Insectivora: Soricidae)]. Zoologische...
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    past it formed a significant group within the former order Insectivora. However, Insectivora was shown to be polyphyletic and various new orders were split...
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    shrews, hedgehogs, and moles were classified under the now obsolete order Insectivora. Fully aquatic mammals, the cetaceans and sirenians, have lost their...
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    Leptictida have been previously placed within the outdated placental group Insectivora, while zhelestids have been considered primitive ungulates. However,...
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  • family Soricidae) as well as three other families of the former order Insectivora, Chrysochloridae (golden moles), Tenrecidae (tenrecs), and Potamogalidae...
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  • A list of prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in Port Kennedy Bone Cave, located within the limits of Valley Forge National Historical...
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    groupings that pose problems in classification (e.g., the proposed order Insectivora is considered a "wastebasket taxon", as it groups small mammals that...
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    activity as cats. Although traditionally classified in the abandoned order Insectivora, hedgehogs are omnivorous. They feed on insects, snails, frogs and toads...
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    of Southeast Asia. This family was once considered part of the order Insectivora, but that polyphyletic order is now considered defunct. Erinaceids are...
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  • This article contains Canadian Aboriginal syllabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead...
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    Matthew R. E. (February 2005). "Phylogeny and life histories of the 'Insectivora': controversies and consequences". Biological Reviews. 80 (1): 93–128...
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    Talpidae and a tentative classification of old world Tertiary Talpidae (Insectivora: Mammalia)". Geobios. 7 (3): 211–256. Bibcode:1974Geobi...7..211H. doi:10...
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    elephant shrews with the traditional (and polyphyletic/incorrect) taxon Insectivora; and the aardvarks with the pangolins and the xenarthrans within the...
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    were for most of the 19th and 20th centuries regarded as a part of the Insectivora or Lipotyphla, but both of those groups, as traditionally used, are polyphyletic...
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    I: The lissencephalic brain of Rodentia, Lagomorpha, Chiroptera, and Insectivora" (PDF). Journal of Anatomy. 145: 217–234. PMC 1166506. PMID 3429306....
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    called 'treeshrews', and despite having previously been classified in Insectivora, they are not true shrews, and not all species live in trees. They are...
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    Kaukasischen Museums (2): 87–402. Miller, G. S. (1907). "Some new European Insectivora and Carnivora". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Seventh Series...
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    of the taxa within it were once regarded as part of the order Insectivora, but Insectivora is now considered to be polyphyletic and obsolete. This proposed...
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    ISBN 0-521-35519-2. Matthew, William Diller (August 1909). "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, Middle Eocene". Memoirs of the American Museum...
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    established the orders Secundates (including the suborders Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora), Tertiates (or Glires) and Quaternates (including Gravigrada...
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    have been clearly established as early odd-toed ungulates. The order Insectivora has traditionally been used as a dumping ground for placental insectivorous...
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    PMC 3199269. PMID 21961908. Butler, P. M. (1984). "Macroscelidea, Insectivora and Chiroptera from the Miocene of east Africa". Palaeovertebrata. 14...
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    life forms. Gingerich, P. D. (1980). "A New Species of Palaeosinopa (Insectivora: Pantolestidae) from the Late Paleocene of Western North America". Journal...
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  • Under South Korean law, the hunting and capturing of a large number of species of wild animals is prohibited. These include 64 species of mammals, 396...
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    The Sansan paleontological site (locally au Campané) is a Miocene fossil deposit in Sansan, in the French department of Gers. Searched by Edouard Lartet...
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    5479/si.00810266.93.65. Morgan, G.S.; J.A. White (1995). "Small mammals (Insectivora, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia) from the early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian)...
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    "Dental morphology of Talpa europaea and Talpa occidentalis (Mammalia: Insectivora) with a discussion of fossil Talpa in the Pleistocene of Europe". Zoologische...
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