Echinosorex de Blainville 1838 (moonrat)
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Mammalia - Tribosphenida - 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
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Echinosorex in the database
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