Echinosorex de Blainville 1838 (moonrat)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae

Synonym: Gymnura Lesson 1827 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Hylomyinae according to G. C. Gould 1995

See also Lopatin 2006, Silcox et al. 2010, Van Valen 1967 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Hylomys, Podogymnura

Subtaxa: Echinosorex gymnura

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Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Echinosorex in the database

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