Nesophontes hypomicrus Miller, 1929:4
Atalaye nesophontes, Lesser Hispaniolan nesophont, Hispaniolan nesophont, Hispaniola island shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: after 1500 AD?
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Haiti (including La Gonâve), Hispaniola
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Mancina, Carlos A., Woods, Charles A. and Kilpatrick, C. William. (2012). Checklist: Updated Checklist of Endemic Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies, pp. 389-415. In: Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History and Wacahoota Press. 482 pp.
Brace, Selina et al. (2016). Evolutionary history of the Nesophontidae, the last unplaced Recent mammal family. Molecular Biology and Evolution. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msw186 [Abstract]
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Goodwin, Harry A. and Goodwin, J. M. (1973). List of mammals which have become extinct or are possibly extinct since 1600. Int. Union Conserv. Nat. Occas. Pap. 8: 1-20.
MacPhee, R. D. E., Flemming, Clare and Lunde, D. P. (1999). "Last Occurrence" of the Antillean Insectivoran [i]Nesophontes[/i]: New Radiometric Dates and Their Interpretation. American Museum Novitates 3261: 20 pp., 7 figures, 6 tables.
McDowell, Samuel Booker Jnr. (1958). The Greater Antillean Insectivores. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 115(3): 113-214, figures 1-46, tables 1, 2.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2010). Evolution of non-homologous venom delivery systems in West Indian insectivores? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 1294-1299.
Turvey, S. and Helgen, K. (2008). Nesophontes hypomicrus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (https://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 April 2012.
Woods, Roseina et al. (2020). Rapid size change associated with intra-island evolutionary radiation in extinct Caribbean “island-shrews”. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: 106.
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