ORDER SORICOMORPHA Gregory, 1910

Soricomorpha, Erinaceomorpha, and Afrosoricida previously composed the single Order Insectivora or Lipotyphla (Hutterer 2005b). Currently, the Order Insectivora has a paraphyletic designation. Since Soricidae has a closer relationship to Erinaceidae than Talpidae, Soricomorpha also seems polyphyletic. Several mammalogists advocated combining Eulipotyphla with Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Waddell et al. 1999; Murphy et al. 2001; Roca et al. 2004). Since greater consensus does not exist for these orders (Vaughan et al. 2013), we followed Wilson and Reeder (2005).

In Korean, 13 species representing four genera and two families compose the Order Soricomorpha . In this review, we removed three species from Soricidae and confirmed 10 species (see below).