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Classification of Pandas, Moles, and Shrews
The classifications below were compiled from information on Wikipedia.
Giant Panda classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Ursidae
- Genus: Ailuropoda
- Species: A. melanoleuca
Iberian mole classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Soricomorpha
- Family: Talpidae
- Genus: Talpa
- Species: T. occidentalis
North American least shrew classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Soricomorpha
- Family: Soricidae
- Genus: Cryptotis
- Species: C. parva
ORDER SORICOMORPHA
- Family Talpidae: (moles and close relatives)
- Subfamily Scalopinae (New World moles and close relatives)
- Subfamily Talpinae (Old World moles and close relatives)
- Subfamily Uropsilinae (Chinese shrew-like moles)
- Family Soricidae (shrews)
- Subfamily Crocidurinae: (white-toothed shrews)
- Subfamily Soricinae: (red-toothed shrews)
- Subfamily Myosoricinae: (African white-toothed shrews)