Tenrecomorpha

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title: Tenrecomorpha
text: Tenrecomorpha is the suborder of otter shrews and tenrecs, a group of afrotherian mammals indigenous to equatorial Africa and Madagascar, respectively. The two families are thought to have split about 47–53 million years ago. Potamogalid otter shrews were formerly considered a subfamily of Tenrecidae. The suborder is also presumed to contain the extinct genus Plesiorycteropus, a group of possibly fossorial insectivores similar to aardvarks, which is known to be more closely related to tenrecs of
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description: Suborder of mammals
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenrecomorpha
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date modified: 2024-03-05T06:12:41Z
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