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Afrotheria ( / æfroʊˈθɪəriə / 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 ...
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).
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Afrotheria 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, otter shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants, sea cows, and several extinct clades. Most groups of afrotheres share little or no superficial resemblance, and their similarities have only become known in ...
Epitheria. Epitherians comprise all the placental mammals except the Xenarthra. They are primarily characterized by having a stirrup -shaped stapes in the middle ear, which allows for passage of a blood vessel. This is in contrast to the column-shaped stapes found in marsupials, monotremes, and xenarthrans. They are also characterized by having ...
Mar 14, 2022 · Within Afrotheria, there are two major clades — Paenungulata and Afroinsectiphilia ( Figure 1 ). Paenungulata includes proboscideans (elephants), sirenians (sea cows, dugongs, manatees) and Hyracoidea (hyraxes). The name Paenungulata (‘near ungulates’) was coined by the renowned vertebrate paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson in 1945 and ...
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.
