| Soricomorpha[1] Temporal range: Middle Eocene–Recent |
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| Southern Short-tailed Shrew | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| Magnorder: | Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder: | Laurasiatheria |
| Order: | Soricomorpha Gregory, 1910 |
| Families | |
The order Soricomorpha ("shrew-form") is a taxon within the class of mammals. In previous years it formed a significant group within the former order Insectivora. However, that order was shown to be polyphyletic and various new orders were split off from it, including Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews), and Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs and gymnures), leaving just four families as shown here, leaving Insectivora empty and disbanded.[1]
Subsequently, Soricomorpha itself was shown to be paraphyletic, because Soricidae shared a more recent common ancestor with Erinaceidae than with other soricomorphs.[2] The combination of Soricomorpha and Erinaceidae, referred to as order Eulipotyphla, has been shown to be monophyletic.[3]
Living members of the order range in size from the Etruscan shrew, at about 3.5 cm and 2 grams, to the Cuban solenodon, at about 32 cm and 1 kg.
- ORDER SORICOMORPHA
- Family Soricidae (shrews)
- Subfamily Crocidurinae: [clarification needed] (white-toothed shrews)
- Subfamily Soricinae: [clarification needed] (red-toothed shrews)
- Subfamily Myosoricinae: [clarification needed] (African white-toothed shrews)
- Family Talpidae: [clarification needed] (moles and close relatives)
- Subfamily Scalopinae (New World moles and close relatives)
- Subfamily Talpinae (Old World moles and close relatives)
- Subfamily Uropsilinae (Chinese shrew-like moles)
- Family Solenodontidae: solenodons (rare primitive soricomorphs)
- Family † Nesophontidae: West Indian shrews (extinct soricomorphs of the Caribbean)
- Family Soricidae (shrews)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M, eds. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 220–311. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ A. L. Roca, G. K. Bar-Gal, E. Eizirik, K. M. Helgen, R. Maria, M. S. Springer, S. J. O'Brien, and W. J. Murphy (2004). "Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores". Nature 429 (6992): 649–651. doi:10.1038/nature02597. PMID 15190349.
- ^ Robin MD Beck, Olaf RP Bininda-Emonds, Marcel Cardillo, Fu-Guo Robert Liu and Andy Purvis (2006). "A higher level MRP supertree of placental mammals". BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 93. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-93. PMC 1654192. PMID 17101039.
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