Desmaninae Thomas, 1912

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 124

Subfamily Desmaninae Thomas, 1912 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8,9:397.

COMMENTS: Sometimes regarded as a separate family; see Barabasch-Nikiforow (1975). Hutchinson (1974) concluded that Desmaninae and Talpidae were separated since the Eocene. Reviewed by Rümke (1985).