Greater Cuban Nesophontes

Greater Cuban Nesophontes
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Soricomorpha
Family:	Nesophontidae
Genus:	Nesophontes
Species:	N. major
Binomial name
Nesophontes major Arredondo, 1970

The greater Cuban nesophontes (Nesophontes major) is an extinct species of soricomorph that was native to Cuba.^[2] It is thought that the introduction of rats lead to its demise.

This article about a soricomorph is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · edit] References ^ Turvey, S. & Helgen, K. (2008). Nesophontes major. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009. ^ Hutterer, Rainer (16 November 2005). "Order Soricomorpha (pp. 220-311)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13700007.  Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат Slender Cuban Nesophontes Lesser Cuban Nesophontes Look at other dictionaries: Nesophontes — Nesophontes[1] Nesophontes edithae Conservation status Ex …   Wikipedia List of mammals in Haiti — This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Haiti. There are 38 mammal species in Haiti, of which 1 is critically endangered, 1 is endangered, 2 are vulnerable, and 0 are near threatened.11 of the species listed for Haiti are considered to… …   Wikipedia List of mammals in Cuba — This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Cuba. There are 59 mammal species in Cuba, of which 5 are critically endangered, 2 are endangered, 4 are vulnerable, and 0 are near threatened.5 of the species listed for Cuba are considered to be… …   Wikipedia List of mammals in the Dominican Republic — This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Dominican Republic. There are 34 mammal species in Dominican Republic, of which 1 is critically endangered, 1 is endangered, 3 are vulnerable, and 0 are near threatened.7 of the species listed for… …   Wikipedia Mammals of the Caribbean — A unique and diverse albeit phylogenetically restricted mammal fauna is known from the Caribbean region. The region specifically, all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the continental mainland) and the Bahamas, Turks… …   Wikipedia List of extinct animals of North America — This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of North America. This list covers only extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geological period that extends from the present day back to about 10,000 radiocarbon years, approximately 11,430 ± 130… …   Wikipedia 18+ © Academic, 2000-2024 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet Share the article and excerpts Direct link … Do a right-click on the link above and select “Copy Link”