Nesophontes hemicingulus Morgan et al., 2019
Cayman nesophont(es) (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: subfossil
Distribution
Cayman Brac & Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Morgan, Gary S., MacPhee, Ross D. E., Woods, Roseina and Turvey, Samuel T. (2019). Late Quaternary fossil mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 428: 79 pp., 24 figures, 8 tables.
Other 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]
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.
Morgan, G. S. (1994). Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands, pp. 465-508. In: Brunt, M. A. and Davies, J. E. (eds.). The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2010). Evolution of non-homologous venom delivery systems in West Indian insectivores? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 1294-1299.
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