Afroinsectivora

The clade Afrosoricida (; a Latin-Greek compound name which means "looking like African shrews") contains the golden moles of Southern Africa, the otter shrews of equatorial Africa, and the tenrecs of Madagascar. These three groups of small mammals were for most of the 19th and 20th centuries regarded as a part of the Insectivora or Lipotyphla, but both of those groups, as traditionally used, are polyphyletic.

family of mammals

Afroinsectivora is a clade of mammals that includes the macroscelideans and afrosoricidans. This clade includes the elephant shrews, golden moles, tenrecs, and otter shrews.