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| Solenodons, shrews, moles, and desmans |
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| Elephant shrews or sengis |
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| Characteristics of Afrosoricida, Erinaceomorpha, and Soricomorpha |
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Generally small
Pendactyl with plantigrade locomotion
Rostrum tends to be long
Pelage often consists of only gurard hairs (spines)
External pinnae are small or absent
Small braincase with smooth cerebral hemispheres |
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| Characteristics of Afrosoricida, Erinaceomorpha, and Soricomorpha |
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Generally small
Pendactyl with plantigrade locomotion
Rostrum tends to be long
Auditory bullae absent
Testes abdominal or anterior
Pubic symphysis reduced
Pelage often consists of only gurard hairs (spines)
External pinnae are small or absent
Small braincase with smooth cerebral hemispheres |
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| Close rooted. Molars W-shaped or V shaped |
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Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Tenrecs have a cloaca and have a low body temperature. Do not require a scrotum.
-Heterothermic
-Eat invertebrates
-Females have 29 tits |
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Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Chrysochloridae
Burrowers, live underground, eat insect.
Torpor when hot.
Low basal metabolic rate to reduce water requirement.
Eat insects. |
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Order: Erinaceomorpha
Family: Erinaceidae
Hedgehogs nocturnal and mainly terrestrial.
Omnivorous
ONLY INSECTIVORE TO USE TRUE HIBERNATION
Hedgehogs perform a ritual called anointing.
Gymnures occupy moist jungle terrain. Large tothy head, naked furless tail.
Primarily carnivorous and eat arthropods, mice, and small reptiles |
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Soldenodontidae (solenodons)
Soricidae (shrews)
Talpidae (moles, shrew moles, desmans) |
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Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Solenodontidae
Solenodonts are venomous, nocturnal, burrowing, insectivorous mammals.
Large snout
Submaxillary glands produce toxic saliva
May be capable of echolocation |
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| Noles, shrew-moles, desmans |
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Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Talpidae
-Shrew-moles smallest of the family are fossorial but also forage on the surface
-moles eat earthworms
-saliva contains a toxin that paralze earthworms
Morphology:
1) rotation of fore-feet
2) pinnae reduced or absent
3) keeled sternum
4) fusimor
5) small eyes
Desmans are small semi-aquatic mammals. Functionally blind and useEimer's organs at end of snout to see. |
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Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Soricinae: Red toothed shrews
Crocidurinae: white-toothed shrews
No auditory bullae or jugal, an incomplete zygomatic arch. Enael reddish due to iron pigment.
-torpor
-can be venomous (submaxillary glands) |
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| Elephant shrews or sengis |
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Order: Macroscelidae
- maintain trails systems for foraging and protection
- have auditory bullae
-have zygomatic arches
-have cecum
- long mobile snout
- high crowned teeth
- molars quadrate and dilambdodont |
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Two families:
Order: Scandentia
tupaiidae: treeshrews
Ptilocercidae: pen-tailed treeshrew
Treeshrews resemble primitive primates in that they have a large braincase, postorbital bar, scrotal testes, tribospehnic molars, unperforated palate, lower incisors are procumbent and used for grooming. |
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| Under order scandentia, tree shrews of this family chronically consume alcohol |
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| Tree shrews under this family are slender animals with long tails and soft, graying to reddish-brown fur. |
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| Tree shrew characteristics |
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-Omnivorous
-Poorly developed canine teeth
-unspecialized molars
-upper molars are dilambdodont
-lower incisors are procmbent |
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Order: Dermoptera
-Colugos have a patagium.
- Herbivores
-Well-developed ceca and intestines
- long gut retention times
-lack opposable thumbs
-procumbent lower incisors
-incisor teeth pectinate, comb-like in shape
-The second upper incisors have two roots, another unique
feature among mammals. |
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