What is Eulipotyphla?
{{Automatic taxobox | name = Eulipotyphla | fossil_range = [[Eocene]] to present | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Eulipotyphla | image = Eulipotyphla.jpg | image_caption = Clockwise from upper left: a [[Hispaniolan solenodon|solenodon]], [[hedgehog]], [[mole]] and [[shrew]] | authority = Waddell et al., 1999 | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = *†[[Amphilemuridae]] *†[[Nesophontidae]] *[[Solenodontidae]] *[[Talpidae]] *[[Soricidae]] *[[Erinaceidae]] }} The '''Eulipotyphla''' is an [[Order (biology)|order]] of [[mammal]]s.<ref>Hutterer, Rainer; Wilson, Don E and Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds) 2005. ''Mammal species of the World''. 3rd ed, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols, pp. 212–311. {{ISBN|978-0-8018-8221-0}}</ref> It was formed from those [[insectivorous]] mammals which are [[monophyletic]], a single [[clade]]. The old order [[Insectivore|Insectivora]] is now abandoned because it was [[polyphyletic]].<ref name=Rocaetal04>{{cite journal | author = Roca A.L. | display-authors = etal | year = 2004 | title = Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores | journal = Nature | volume = 429 | issue = 6992| pages = 649–651 | url = | doi = 10.1038/nature02597 | pmid = 15190349| s2cid = 915633 }}</ref> The new order Eulipotyphla has been shown to be monophyletic.<ref name=Beck>{{cite journal | author = Beck R.M.D. | display-authors = etal | year = 2006 | title = A higher level MRP supertree of placental mammals | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 6 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-6-93 | pmid = 17101039 | pages = 93 | doi-access = free | pmc = 1654192}}</ref> The term '''insectivorous''' (insect eating) can still be used to describe [[mode of life|lifestyle]]. It explains the food habits of this and some other groups of mammals, They are more closely related to [[Carnivora]] ([[cat]]s, [[dog]]s, [[bear]]s), [[Pholidota]] ([[pangolin]]s), [[Chiroptera]] ([[bat]]s), and [[Perissodactyla]] ([[equid]]s). As part of the superorder [[Laurasiatheria]]. ==Lifestyles== Although [[mole]]s and [[shrew]]s a