Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia

Original position

Questionably Soricoidea (Superfamily) Fischer, 1814

Original entries

Questionably Nesophontes (Genus) Anthony, 1916

Current position

Nesophontoidea (Superfamily) Anthony, 1916

Ref: A.V. Lopatin, 2006: S384.

Alternative positions

Eulipotyphla (Order) Waddell, Okada & Hasegawa, 1999	Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Insectivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821	Ref: R. Hutterer, 1993: 69.
Soricoidea (Superfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 285.
Soricomorpha (Order) Gregory, 1910	Ref: R. Hutterer, 2005: 220.

Historical positions

Eulipotyphla (Order) Waddell, Okada & Hasegawa, 1999	Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Nesophontoidea (Superfamily) Anthony, 1916	Ref: A.V. Lopatin, 2006: S384.
Soricomorpha (Order) Gregory, 1910	Ref: R. Hutterer, 2005: 220.
Soricoidea (Superfamily) Fischer, 1814	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 285.
Insectivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821	Ref: 1995
Insectivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821	Ref: R. Hutterer, 1993: 69; 4.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	‡1g;9s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[; ‡1g;9s]
2005	R. Hutterer: 222	[; ‡1g;9s]
2005	R. Hutterer: 222	[; ‡1g;9s]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[; ‡1g]
1993	R. Hutterer	‡1g;8s