English: Hedgehogs and gymnures.
TaxonomyErinaceidae is the only living family in the order
Erinaceomorpha, which has recently been subsumed with
Soricomorpha into the order
Eulipotyphla.
Eulipotyphla has been shown to be monophyletic.
Soricomorpha is paraphyletic because
Soricidae shared a more recent common ancestor with
Erinaceidae than with other soricomorphs.