Taxa

Afrosoricida

Order

Citation Formats

General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Afrosoricida." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-afrosoricida.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Afrosoricida. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-afrosoricida

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-afrosoricida,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Afrosoricida},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-afrosoricida},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals comprising the golden moles of southern Africa, the otter shrews of equatorial Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar. These animals were long misclassified within the now abandoned orders Insectivora or Lipotyphla before genetic evidence showed they instead belong to their own distinct African lineage.

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