A order of small, mostly insect-eating mammals with elongated snouts and, generally, poor eyesight compensated for by acute senses of smell and touch. Eulipotyphla includes shrews, moles and hedgehogs.
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Living or Extinct Eulipotyphla
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Wikidata: Eulipotyphla
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Eulipotyphla (, from eu- "true" + Lipotyphla "lacking blind gut"; sometimes called true insectivores) is an order of mammals comprising the families Erinaceidae (hedgehogs and gymnures), Solenodontidae (solenodons), Talpidae (moles, shrew-like moles and desmans), and Soricidae (true shrews).
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