Biology:Slender Cuban nesophontes

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Short description: Extinct species of mammal

Slender Cuban nesophontes[1]
Temporal range: Early Holocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Nesophontidae
Genus: Nesophontes
Species:
N. longirostris
Binomial name
Nesophontes longirostris
Anthony, 1919

The slender Cuban nesophontes (Nesophontes longirostris) is an extinct species of eulipotyphlan of the genus Nesophontes which was once native to Cuba. It was recognised as a separate species in 1919.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13700006. 
  2. Anthony HE. 1919. Mammals collected in Eastern Cuba in 1917, with a description of two new species. Bulletin of the AMNH; v. 41, 625 –643. New York: American Museum of Natural History

Wikidata ☰ Q1768368 entry