Afrosoricida
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Name (Latin)
Afrosoricida
Other forms of name
Tenrecomorpha
See Also From tracing topical name
Afrotherians
Mammals
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q328082
Library of congress:
sh2003004658
Sources of Information
- Afrotherian systematics, via WWW, Mar. 9, 2003(Order Afrosoricida or Tenrecomorpha, Superorder Afrotheria. Stanhope et al. (1998) grouped golden moles and tenrecs in the new order Afrosoricida. The existence of this clade, and its affinities with other Afrotherian taxa, is strongly supported by phylogenies based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences and protein sequence signatures. Valid name for this order is possibly Tenrecomorpha Butler, 1956.)
- Afrotherian conservation, June 2002:p. 4 (a clade containing tenrecs and golden moles (termed "Afrosoricida" by Stanhope et al. (1998) seems to be well-supported by both molecular and morphological evidence)
- Texas A&M Univ. Dept. of Biology, Biology 4429-Mammalogy Fall 2003 home page, viewed Mar. 9, 2003:lecture schedule/Sept. 16 (molecular evidence indicates golden moles and tenrecs belong in the Afrotheria, a taxonomic group that also includes elephants, sea cows, hyraxes, aardvarks, elephant shrews. A new order "Afrosoricida" comprises Chrysochloridae (golden moles) and Tenrecidae (tenrecs)) Oct. 14 (Order Afrosoricida: Family Tenrecidae (tenrecs, otter-shrews), Madagascar, Africa; Family Chrysochloridae (golden moles), Africa. Superorder Afrotheria)
- Classification zoologique des insectivores et Afrosoricides = Insectivora and Afrosoricidae classification, via WWW, Mar. 9, 2003(new order based on molecular data: Afrosoricida, superorder Afrotheria, two families, Tenrecidae and Chrysochloridae)
- E-mail from Don E. Wilson, Div. of Mammals, Smithsonian Inst., Mar. 28, 2003(upcoming revision of Mammal species of the world will recognize Afrosoricida; sequence of orders in the new edition will be reorganized to reflect recognition of the superorder Afrotheria)
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Wikipedia description:
The clade Afrosoricida (a Latin-Greek compound name which means "looking like African shrews") contains the golden moles of Southern Africa, the otter shrews of equatorial Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar. These three groups of small mammals 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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