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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Wasserspitzmaus, Neomys fodiens (Insectivora: Soricidae)" [On vocalization of the european water shrew Neomys fodiens (Insectivora: Soricidae)]. Zoologische...
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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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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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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Leptictida have been previously placed within the outdated placental group Insectivora, while zhelestids have been considered primitive ungulates.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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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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elephant shrews, and colugos, under the broader catch-all category Insectivora. This now-abandoned category, consisting of all small insect-eating placental...
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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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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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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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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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family Soricidae) as well as three other families of the former order Insectivora, Chrysochloridae (golden moles), Tenrecidae (tenrecs), and Potamogalidae...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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pangolins 1766: as above plus armadillos Suborder Gravigrada Order Insectivora Several Hedgehog, shrews, moles, tenrecs, golden moles, otter shrews...
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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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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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they reach sexual maturity. Hedgehogs were classified under the order Insectivora prior to that classification's abandonment. Hedgehogs are considered...
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Protected species of South Korea (section Insectivora)
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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"Three New Karyotypic Races of the Common Shrew Sorex Araneus (Mammalia: Insectivora) and a Phylogeny". Systematic Biology. 33 (2): 184–194. doi:10.1093/sysbio/33...
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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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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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