Pictures and facts about the Elephant-shrews

Elephant-shrews

Order : Macroscelidea

Facts about the order Macroscelidea, the elephant-shrews

Once considered a divergent family of the order Insectivora, elephant-shrews are now placed in their own order, the Macroscelidea. (Full text)

's (2003) excellent data matrix (which includes the widest range of living and fossil mammals I've seen) but proceed to delete all the non-afrotherian ingroup taxa because "a full assessment of the position of Macroscelidea is beyond the scope of this study". (Full text)

As it has become plain that the elephant shrews are unrelated to the shrews, some people prefer to call them sengis, a term derived from the Bantu languages of Africa. (Full text)

In some (constituting the genus Rhyncocyon) the muzzle is so much prolonged as to resemble a See also:PROBOSCISproboscis, whence, the name See also:ELEPHANTelephant-shrews is sometimes applied to the members of the family. (Full text)

The elephant-shrews within the system of mammals Elephant-shrews are a phylogenetic old group and therefore are placed today in an own order of mammals. (Full text)

This also indicates that the classification of elephant-shrews is not really clarified yet. (Full text)

Another striking feature of short-eared elephant-shrews is their long mobile snout (the "elephant trunk"). (Full text)

Short-eared elephant-shrews are small shrew-like looking animals, which belong to an own order of mammals (Macroscelidea). (Full text)

First, elephant-shrews are neither elephants nor shrews—for this reason, biologists who study these animals have begun calling them sengi, a Bantu word. (Full text)

In some (constituting the genus Rhyncocyon) the muzzle is so much prolonged as to resemble a proboscis, whence the name elephant-shrews is sometimes applied to the members of the family. (Full text)

Four types of giant elephant shrews are found in East Africa and are mainly distinguished by their distinct color patterns; some have contrasting patches of color and others have bold white spots and black stripes. (Full text)

The evolutionary history of elephant shrews is confined to Africa and dates to the Late Eocene Epoch (41. (Full text)

Taxonomy The 15 living species of elephant-shrews are well-defined, and their taxonomy is considered nearly definitive (Corbet and Hanks 1968, Nicoll and Rathbun 1990). (Full text)

The small insectivorous mammals endemic to Africa known as elephant shrews are neither elephants nor shrews and, more formally, are the members of the biological order Macroscelidea. (Full text)

about Mammalia Macroscelidea is based on the Open Directory Project and has been modified. (Full text)

A monophyletic Glires is supported by molecular data, but a relationship of Glires to Macroscelidea is not (e. (Full text)

In figure 7, for example, the order Macroscelidea is classified with a subclass and an infraclass in data set A that do not exist in data set B. (Full text)

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Butler (1972) Macroscelidea is its own order, not part of the Insectivora (Full text)

Elephant shrews are endemic to Africa. (Full text)

Macroscelidea is one of several morphologically diverse but predominantly African placental orders classified in the superorder Afrotheria by molecular phylogeneticists3, 4. (Full text)

MACROSCELIDEA Macroscelidea is the elephant shrew order of mammals containing just one family, Macroscelididae. (Full text)

Elephant shrews are extremely territorial and become irate when another shrew approaches them on their own territory. (Full text)