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| | Eurasian Insectivores and Tree Shrews - Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan, 1995: Chapter2/1 |
 | | Van Valen (1967) considered the Order Insectivora to be restricted to the families Tupaiidae, Macroscelididae, Cynocephalidae (now in the order Dermoptera), Erinaceidae, Talpidae, Nesophontidae, and Soricidae. |
 | | In a more recent review, McKenna (1975) elevated the Insectivora to the rank of a grandorder containing two orders: the Erinaceomorpha, with the family Erinaceidae; and the Soricomorpha, with the living families Talpidae, Nesophontidae, Soricidae, Solenodontidae, Tenrecidae, and Chrysochloridae. |
 | | The Macroscelididae were placed in a separate order - the Macroscelidea which, together with the order Lagomorpha, was put in the grandorder Anagalidia. |
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