INSECTIVORAINSECTIVORA
| Cuba 2003 | Namibia 2000 | British Jersey 1999 |
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| Cuban Solenodon Solenodon cubanus (Solenodontidae) |
Namib Desert Golden Mole Eremitalpa granti namibensis (Chrysochloridae) |
European Mole Talpa europaea (Talpidae) |
| Democratic Republic of Germany 1963 | British Jersey 1999 | Japan 2012 | Democratic Republic of Germany 1962 |
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| Western European Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus (Erinaceidae) |
Lesser White-toothed Shrew Crocidura suaveolens (Soricidae) |
Eurasian Least Shrew Sorex minutissimus (Soricidae) |
Eurasian common shrew Sorex araneus (Soricidae) |
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| Amur Hedgehog Erinaceus amurensis (Erinaceidae) (INSECTIVORA) |
Japanese Water-shrew Chimarrogale platycephala (Soricidae) (INSECTIVORA) |
Greater Japanese Shrew-mole Urotrichus talpoides (Talpidae) (INSECTIVORA) |
Small Japanese Mole Mogera minor (Talpidae) (INSECTIVORA) |
The origin of the Insectivora is very old. The Insectivora have already inhabited in the Mesozoic Cretaceous when was similar, and a dinosaur / Pterosauria, Amao reptiles and many invertebrates had disappeared. For system embryology, it is done with the founder of mammals having all placentas except the special animal which seems to be on egg-related Monotremata and Marsupialia. Actually, as for fossil of original appetite Insectivora of the Cretaceous excavated with dinosaurs and a lot of similarities with the actual Insectivora to do, it may be said that the animal of the Insectivora kept a form of the beginning very for a long time whereas it evolved while other mammals do adaptive radiation. It is thought that it was able to understand the Primates from an Insectivora directly. There is the Insectivora to exist more than 400 species, and it is next to Rodentia and Chiroptera, and it is wide, and a lot of species are distributed over South America, Greenland and the whole world except Australia. An Insectivora of soricidae and the talpidae is distributed over world.
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