Erinaceidae is a family in the order
Eulipotyphla. Until recently, it was assigned to the order
Erinaceomorpha, which has been subsumed with the
paraphyletic Soricomorpha into Eulipotyphla. Eulipotyphla has been shown to be
monophyletic; Soricomorpha is paraphyletic because
Soricidae shared a more recent common ancestor with Erinaceidae than with other soricomorphs.