Golden mole (redirect from Chrysochloridae)
burrowing mammals endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. They comprise the family Chrysochloridae (the only family in the suborder Chrysochloridea) and as such they...
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had long been applied. However, molecular evidence indicated that Chrysochloridae (golden moles), Tenrecidae (tenrecs), and Potamogalidae (otter shrews)...
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converge on fossorial placental mammals, such as extant golden moles (Chrysochloridae) and extinct epoicotheres (Pholidota). The species are: Notoryctes...
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List of afrosoricids (section Family Chrysochloridae)
divided into two suborders, with Chrysochloridea containing the family Chrysochloridae, or golden moles, and Tenrecomorpha containing the families Potamogalidae...
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Tenrecidae: tenrecs, 34 species in 10 genera Suborder Chrysochloridea Family Chrysochloridae Subfamily Chrysochlorinae Genus Carpitalpa Arends' golden mole (Carpitalpa...
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the name golden comes from the Greek word for green-gold, the family Chrysochloridae name. The giant golden mole has a subterranean lifestyle. It has large...
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Soricidae) as well as three other families of the former order Insectivora, Chrysochloridae (golden moles), Tenrecidae (tenrecs), and Potamogalidae (otter shrews)...
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1080/0035919X.2014.933452. S2CIDÂ 128423895. Martin Pickford (2015). "Chrysochloridae (Mammalia) from the Lutetian (Middle Eocene) of Black Crow, Namibia"...
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Potamogalidae: (3 species), otter-shrews (West and Central Africa) Family Chrysochloridae: (21 species), golden moles (Africa south of the Sahara) Order Tubulidentata...
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