Insectivora

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Noun1.Insectivora - shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs
order Insectivora
animal order - the order of animals
Eutheria, subclass Eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Lipotyphla, suborder Lipotyphla - moles; hedgehogs; true shrews
Menotyphla, suborder Menotyphla - elephant shrews; tree shrews
insectivore - small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
family Talpidae, Talpidae - moles
Chrysochloridae, family Chrysochloridae - golden moles
family Soricidae, Soricidae - shrews
Erinaceidae, family Erinaceidae - true hedgehogs
family Tenrecidae, Tenrecidae - tenrecs and extinct related forms
family Potamogalidae, Potamogalidae - otter shrews
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The small family of elephant shrews or sengis (order Macroscelidea) represents a monophyletic radiation endemic to Africa and which was long placed within the polyphyletic group 'Insectivora' (Rathbun & Rathbun, 2006).
A Gross Morphometric Study of Olfactory Brain Components in the Rufous Sengi (Elephantulus rufescens)/Estudio Morfometrico de los Componentes Olfativo del Cerebro en el Rufo Sengi (Elephantulus rufescens)
3, Apendice 1), en cuanto a su dieta insectivora de C.
Dieta y estructura trofica de un ensamblaje de murcielagos en los bosques montanos del Santuario Nacional Pampa Hermosa, Junin, Peru
Patterns of geographic variation of Talpa romana (Insectivora, Talpidae).
Geometric Morphometry of Skulls Characteristics of Nine Species of Eothenomys
Monotremata, Insectivora, Scandentia and Cetacea show a 'primitive splenic type' distinguished by a closed circulation.
MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN SPLEEN
1999: The communities of terrestrial small mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia) of the Nebrodi Mountains (northeastern Sicily).
Consistent demographic trends in Savi's pine vole between two distant areas in central Italy
rodents caught) Rodentia Muridae Bandicota indica (57) Bandicota savilei (51) Berylmys berdmorei (3) Mus caroli (4) Mus cervicolor (6) Niviventer fulvescens (1) Rattus berdmorei (25) Rattus exulans (78) Rattus norvegicus (4) Rattus tanezumi (189) Sciuridae Menetes berdmorei (16) Insectivora Tupaiiae Tupaia belangeri (3) Tupaia glis (25) 2 Orders 3 Families 13 Species Order Seropositivity Pathogen Detection (No.
Surveillance for Scrub Typhus, Rickettsial Diseases, and Leptospirosis in US and Multinational Military Training Exercise Cobra Gold Sites in Thailand
(2009): "Los micromamiferos (Rodentia, Insectivora y Chiroptera)".
MATERIALES DEL PALEOLITICO SUPERIOR EN COVA NEGRA (XATIVA) Y SU INTERES PARA ESTABLECER LOS PROCESOS DE SU SECUENCIA ESTRATIGRAFICA
Evolution and biogeography of Mexican small-eared shrews of the Cryptotis mexicana group (Insectivora: Soricidae).
Complejidad de habitat y diversidad de mamiferos pequenos en un gradiente altitudinal en el sur de Mexico
[1] Agrane, S., 2001--Insectivorie du herisson d'Algerie, Atelerix algirus (Lerebouillet, 1842) (Mammalia, Insectivora) en Mitidja orientale (Alger) et pres du lac Ichkeul (Tunisie).
Trophic ecology of the desert hedgehog Hemiechinus aethiopicus Ehrenberg, 1833 in the Mergueb natural reserve (M'Sila, Algeria)
Fossil shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae) from the late Pleistocene of Colorado.
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison of the Colorado Plateau
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