Elephant-shrews, xenarthrans, hystricognathous rodents, cetaceans, some pinnipeds, and primates depart sharply from this trend, however.
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Xenarthran
//zəˈnɑɹθɹən//
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Xenarthrans appear to have originated in South America and to have undergone their major adaptive radiation there (Reig 1981).
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Only four xenarthran families are extant today, providing little indication of the past richness of the order.
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2010, Ana Maria Jansen, André Luiz Rodrigues Roque, 11: Domestic and Wild Mammalian Reservoirs, Jenny Telleria, Michel Tibayrenc, American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease: One Hundred Years of Research, page 249, Marsupials and xenarthrans, which represented the autochthonous mammalian fauna, were T. cruzi’s first hosts.
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