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Taxon:
Mirorder
Macroscelidea
Butler, 1956
- elephant shrews
(mammal)
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Entity:
[Anagalida] (Grandorder)
..[Macroscelidea] (Mirorder) - elephant shrews
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
(Butler, 1956) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
Original name
:
Butler, 1956:479.
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.)
:
McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. 1997.
Classif. Mamm.
: 106 ("Butler, 1956:479, new rank").
Types
Type, by inheritance
:
Macroscelides
(Genus)
Smith, 1829
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 107.
[
new
] [inferred]
Variants
Basionym
:
Macroscelidea
(Order)
Butler, 1956
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 106 (note 1).
[
new
]
Earlier rank
:
Macroscelidoidea
(Superfamily)
Ref:
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
: 106.
[inferred]
Current rank
:
Macroscelidea
(Order)
Butler, 1956
Ref:
M.J. Benton, 2015
: 443.
[inferred]
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Menotyphla
(Order)
(Haeckel)
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
elephant shrews
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