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Mar 14, 2022 · The second major clade of Afrotheria is Afroinsectiphilia (‘African insectivores’), which includes Tubulidentata (aardvark), Macroscelidea (sengis or elephant shrews), and Afrosoricida (golden moles, African otter shrews, tenrecs); almost all of these animals are insectivorous.
Afrotheria (/ æ f r oʊ ˈ θ ɪər i ə / from Latin Afro-"of Africa" + theria "wild beast") is a superorder of mammals, the living members of which belong to groups that are either currently living in Africa or of African origin: golden moles, elephant shrews (also known as sengis), otter shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants, sea cows, and several extinct clades.
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The Afrotheria Specialist Group deals with very few species — there is only one aardvark, 6 hyraxes, 19 sengis, 21 golden moles, and 34 tenrecs. Many of these species have broad distributions in a wide variety of habitats, which means they are not particularly vulnerable to extinction (the aardvark, for example, and several hyraxes and sengis).
The Afrotheria is a group of mammals, (a superorder or a clade ). It includes the golden moles, elephant shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants and manatees. Biologists made this group based on DNA sequence analysis. [1] Afrotheria are one of four major groups in the Eutheria ( placental mammals). Afrotheria means "African animals ...
- Afrotheria
- Placentalia
Nov 13, 2007 · Early Tertiary mammals from North Africa reinforce the molecular Afrotheria clade. Proceedings of the Royal Society B [PMC free article] [Google Scholar] Seiffert ER, Simons EL, Ryan TM, Bown TM, Attia Y. New remains of Eocene and Oligocene Afrosoricida (Afrotheria) from Egypt, and the origin(s) of afrosoricid zalambdodonty. J Vert Paleo.
- Erik R Seiffert
- 10.1186/1471-2148-7-224
- 2007
- BMC Evol Biol. 2007; 7: 224.
Stanhope et al. (1998) grouped golden moles and tenrecs in the new order Afrosoricida. The existence of this clade, and its affinities with other Afrotherian taxa, is strongly supported by phylogenies based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences, and rare genomic changes such as indels (insertions and deletions), SINES (short interspersed nuclear sequences) and chromosomal rearrangements ...
Afrotheria For our overview of Eutherian orders, we will use the phylogeny proposed by Murphy et al. (2001). Basal split = Afrotheria and all other orders Afrotheria is composed of Afrosoricida; Macroscelidea; Tubulidentata; Hyracoidea; Proboscidea; Sirenia. All these lineages have African origins, but some have expanded their ranges beyond Africa.
