- Therefore, at its widest extent, the order Insectivora represented an evolutionary grade rather than a clade. ... Wikispecies has information related to Insectivora.
- The order Insectivora is therefore disbanded. ... Insectivora An order of small, mainly nocturnal, mammals that includes the hedgehogs, moles, and shrews.
- The Holocene is the past ~10,000 years of life on Earth. It is the bridge between our paleontological studies of the Pleistocene and our conservation actions...
- The last few decades have seen a radical revision of the Insectivora, with many fossil and recent taxa previously included here relocated elsewhere.
- Insectivora, order of mammals containing 7 living families: shrews, moles, hedgehogs, tenrecs, otter shrews, golden moles and solenodons. ...
- Order insectivora: shrews and moles. The name insectivora (insect eater) has reference to the food habits of the group as a whole.
- Insectivores (Insectivora) are a group of mammals that include hedgehogs, moonrats, shrews, and moles.
- Insectivora. Insectivores are considered the most primitive of all placental mammals and are believed to be the ones from which present day mammals have evolved.
- The order Insectivora (from Latin insectum "insect" and vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals.
