Elephant screw
Appearance
Elephant screws[1] | |
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Short-eared elephant screw (Macroscelides proboscideus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Infracless: | Eutheria |
Superorder: | Afrotheria |
(unranked): | Afroinsectiphilia |
Order: | Macroscelidea Butler, 1956 |
Faimily: | Macroscelididae Bonaparte, 1838 |
Genera | |
Elephant screws or jumpin screws are smaa insectivorous mammals hamelt in Africae, belangin tae the faimily Macroscelididae, in the order Macroscelidea, whose tradeetional common Inglis name comes frae a fancied resemblance atween thair lang noses an the trunk o an elephant, an an assumed relationship wi the screws (faimily Soricidae) in the order Insectivora.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Schlitter, D. A. (2005). "Order Macroscelidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 82–85. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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