Editing Insectivora (section)

== Classification ==

* '''Order [[Eulipotyphla]] (remnant of 'Insectivora')'''
** '''Family [[Erinaceidae]]'''
*** Subfamily Erinaceinae: [[hedgehog]]s
*** Subfamily Hylomyinae: [[gymnure|moonrats]] and [[gymnure]]s
** '''Family [[Soricidae]]'''
*** [[File:Southern short-tailed shrew.jpg|thumb|A [[Shrew]].]]Subfamily Crocidurinae: [[white-toothed shrew]]s                               
*** Subfamily Soricinae: [[red-toothed shrew]]s
*** Subfamily Myosoricinae: [[African white-toothed shrew]]s
** '''Family [[Talpidae]]'''
*** Subfamily Desmaninae: [[desman]]s
*** Subfamily Talpinae: [[Mole (animal)|moles]]
*** Subfamily Uropsilinae: [[shrew moles]]
** '''Family [[Solenodontidae]]''': solenodons
** '''Family [[Nesophontidae]]''': extinct West Indian shrews

Family-level cladogram of extant insectivoran relationships, following Roca et al.:<ref name=Rocaetal04/>

{{clade
|label1='''[[Eulipotyphla]]'''
|1={{clade
   |1 = [[Solenodontidae]]
   |2 = {{clade
        |1 = [[Talpidae]]
        |2 ={{clade
               |1 = [[Soricidae]]
               |2 = [[Erinaceidae]]
            }}
         }}
    }}
}}

These families have been placed within Insectivora in the past:
:* Family [[Chrysochloridae]] ([[golden mole]]s)
:* Family [[Tenrecidae]] ([[tenrec]]s)
:*Family [[Potamogalidae]] ([[Potamogalidae|otter shrews]])
:* Family [[Macroscelididae]] ([[elephant shrew]]s)
:* Family [[Tupaiidae]] ([[Tupaiidae|true treeshrews]])
:*Family [[Pen-tailed treeshrew|Ptilocercidae]] ([[pen-tailed treeshrew]])
:* Family [[Cynocephalidae]] ([[colugo]]s)

Not to be confused with [[insectivore]]s (the eaters of insects considered as a [[List of feeding behaviours|feeding behavior]]), many of which do not belong to Eulipotyphla or the other taxa formerly included within Insectivora.