Western Cuban nesophontes

Western Cuban nesophontes

Extinct  (1500s)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Nesophontidae
Genus: Nesophontes
Species: N. micrus
Binomial name
Nesophontes micrus
G.M. Allen, 1917

The western Cuban nesophontes (Nesophontes micrus) is an extinct species of mammal in the family Nesophontidae.[2] It was found in Cuba and Haiti.

Sources

  1. Turvey, S. & Helgen, K. (2008). Nesophontes micrus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  2. Hutterer, R. (2005). "Order Soricomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.


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