Atalaye nesophontes
Appearance
Atalaye nesophontes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | †Nesophontidae |
Genus: | †Nesophontes |
Species: | †N. hypomicrus
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Binomial name | |
†Nesophontes hypomicrus Miller, 1929
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The Atalaye nesophontes (Nesophontes hypomicrus) is an extinct species of mammal in the family Nesophontidae.[2] It was endemic to Hispaniola in the Caribbean (in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and is only known from fossil deposits.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Turvey, S.T.; Helgen, K. (2017). "Nesophontes hypomicrus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T14672A22281724. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T14672A22281724.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Hutterer, R. (2005). "Order Soricomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). 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.
- ^ "Nesophontes hypomicrus". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. 1.5. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List extinct species
- Nesophontes
- Holocene extinctions
- Extinct animals of Haiti
- Extinct animals of the Dominican Republic
- Mammals of the Dominican Republic
- Mammals of Haiti
- Mammals of Hispaniola
- Mammals of the Caribbean
- Mammals described in 1929
- Mammal extinctions since 1500
- Prehistoric mammal stubs
- Eulipotyphla stubs