Afrotherian Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the orders of afrotherian mammals, elephants, sea cows, hyraxes, aardvarks, tenrecs and elephant shrews. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is an order of afrotherian mammals. It excludes other placental mammal orders. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Proboscidea (Wikipedia)
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Proboscidea (; from Latin proboscis, from Ancient Greek προβοσκίς (proboskís) 'elephant's trunk') is a taxonomic order of Afrothere paenungulate mammals described by J. Illiger in 1811.
Sirenia (Wikipedia)
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The Sirenia ( sy-REE-nee-ə), commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.
Wikipedia: Afrosoricida
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The order Afrosoricida (; a Latin-Greek compound name which means "looking like African shrews") contains the golden moles of Southern Africa, the otter shrews of equatorial Africa, and the tenrecs of Madagascar.
Wikipedia: Sengi
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Sengis, also called elephant shrews or jumping shrews, are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, in the order Macroscelidea.
Aardvark (Wikipedia)
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The aardvark ( ; Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa.
Hyracoidea (Wikipedia)
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Hyracoidea is a taxonomic order of mammals.
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