Lesser Cuban Nesophontes

Lesser Cuban Nesophontes
Lesser Cuban Nesophontes[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Nesophontidae
Genus: Nesophontes
Species: N. submicrus
Binomial name
Nesophontes submicrus
Arredondo, 1970

The Lesser Cuban Nesophontes (Nesophontes submicrus) is an extinct species of soricomorph of the genus Nesophontes. Its remains have been found in western Cuba, in the vicinity of Havanna.

References

  1. ^ a b 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.). pp. 221-222. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13700010.