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Afrosoricida

Mitochondrial Phylogeny

Eulipotyphla

References

  • Ebsco
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Moscow
  • Encyclopedia of the USSR
  • Bucknell University
  • University of Michigan
  • American Society of Mammalogists

1)Moles (Talpidae)

-fossorial aniamls adapted for digging

-live underground

-worms,small invertabrates

Mole Damage

Northern Short Tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda)

inhabitats N.America

  • venomous
  • 108-140 mm
  • 15-30 g
  • diet: earthworms,seeds,voles,snails and even smaller shrews
  • The saliva of the Northern Short-tailed Shrew contains a kallikrein protease, used to paralyze. The toxin is strong enough to kill small animals (Ballenger, LB. (2000). Blarina brevicauda.)
  • This animal is capable of digging at a rate of 2.5 centimeters per minute, in-between resting. (George, SBG, Choate, JRC, & Genoways, HCG. (1986). Mamalian species, blarina brevicauda. 3(261))

a)European Mole

  • black(sometimes albino)
  • short legs,large claws
  • narrow snout
  • well developed insicors

a)European Hedghog((Erinaceus europaeus)

  • 30 cm long
  • woodlands
  • pest in NZ

3)Shrews (Soricidae)

-similar to long-nosed mouse yet not rodent

-sharp spike like teeth

-15 cm & 100 g

-life span: 12-30 months

-teritorial,live solitary life only socialising for mating

-echolocate

2)Hedgehogs (Erinaceidae)

-no in N.America and Australia

-sharp spine

-primarily nocturnal

-derived from the Middle English 'heyghoge'

-invertabrates and berries

Talpidae

Soricidae

Erinaceidae

Giant Otter Shrew

  • canivorous(fish,mollusc,frogs,crabs,insects)
  • streams, wetlands,rivers
  • Central Africa
  • largest Eulipotyphla

Afrosoricida (eng. looking like african shrews) contains of Tenrecs and the Golden Mole of Africa

Tenrec

Mitochondrial phylogeny: phylogeny defined by differences in human mitochondrial DNA.

Formerly a member of the Insectivora order until it's split in 1990

EULIPOTYPHIA

EULIPOTYPHLA

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