Order - Eulipotyphla

Class: Mammalia

Subclass: Theria

Infraclass: Eutheria

Order: Eulipotyphla

Name derivation: “truly fat and blind”

Number of known Species: 593

  • Family: Erinaceidae (34 species - hedgehogs, gymnures)
  • Family: Nesophontidae (6 species - West Indian shrews) EXTINCT
  • Family: Solenodontidae (4 species - solenodons)
  • Family: Soricidae (487 species - shrews)
  • Family: Talpidae (62 species - moles, desmans, shrew-moles)

Notes: Based on Catalogue of Life as of July 2024. Still treated by some as two Orders - Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha