Order - Eulipotyphla
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Eutheria
Order: Eulipotyphla
Name derivation: “truly fat and blind”
- 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)
Genus Count: 61
Species Count: 593
Notes: Based on Catalogue of Life as of March 2025. Still treated by some as two Orders - Soricomorpha and Erinaceomorpha.