Review Questions- Order Insectivora
 Question  
Answer
 1. List the six families contained
     within the order Insectivora.
 2. Members of the order Insectivora
     have many ancesteral/advanced
     characteristics.
 3. Are the six families within the
     order Insectivora monophyletic?



 
 4. List 6 general characteristics of
     the order Insectivora.
 5. Insectivores share many
     primitive characteristics.  List
     these characteristics.
 6. Are insectivores of any significant
     economic importance?


     If so, in what way?
 7. Hedgehogs and gymnures
     belong to the family _________.
 8. Give the distribution for the
     family Erinaceidae.
 9. In what kind of habitats do
     hedgehogs and gymnures
     occur?
10. Distinguish between hedgehogs
      and gymnures.
11. Moles, desmans, and shrew-moles
      belong to the family ___________.
12. Talpids are closely related to
      __________.




13. Give the distribution for the
      family Talpidae.
14. Talpids have several fossorial
       characteristics.  List them.
15. What are desmans?



      Where do they occur?


       
      What kinds of adaptations
       do they exhibit?
16. Tenrecs and otter-shrews
      belong to the family
      ______________.

 
17. The otter-shrews are
      sometimes placed in a
      separate family, the
      ______________.
18. Tenrecs are restricted to
       ________________.
19.  Otter-shrews occur in
       ___________________.
20. List three cranial characteristics
      of tenrecs.
21. The golden moles are placed in the
       family _____________.
22. Golden moles appear to be
      more closely related to the
      __________ and _________
      than to the other insectivore
      families.
23. Give the distribution for the
       family Chrysochloridae.
24. List six fossorial characteristics
      of the family Chrysochloridae.
25.  The solenodons belong
        to the family ____________.
26.  ______________ are among the
       largest insectivores.
27.  List six characteristics of
       solenodons.
28.  The ___________ is the
       largest and most widely
       distributed insectivore
       family.
29. List the two subfamilies
      within the family
      Soricidae.


      How are they different
       from each other?
30. The subfamily Soricinae
      is comprised of three
      tribes.  List them.







     Give the distribution for
      the subfamily Soricinae.
31.  Give the distribution for the
       family Crocidurinae.
32.  List several characteristics of
       the family Soricidae.