Nesophontes major Arredondo, 1970:126

Greater Cuban nesophontes, major island-shrew

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1500 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Cuba

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Arredondo, 1970. [description of Nesophontes major]. Memoria, Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 30(86): 126.

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]

CaNDIS FERNANDEZ, M.M., JIMÉNEZ VAzQUEZ, O. & AHREDONDO, C. 2005. Revisión taxonómica del género Nesophontes (Insectivora: Nesophontidae) en Cuba. Anàlisis de los caracteres diagnósticos. In: ALcoVEr, JA & BOVER, P. (eds.): Proceedings ofthe International Symposium "Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach': Monografies de la Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears, 12: 95-100.

Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x

Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772

Ignacio Ramos García and Rafael Borroto Páez. (2000). Ejemplares tipo de mamíferos en colecciones cubanas. Orsis 15: 75-89.

Jiménez Vázquez O, C ondis MM, and Elvis García C (2005) Vertebrados post-glaciales en un residuario fósil de Tyto alba scopoli (Aves: Tytonidae) en el occidente de Cuba. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología 9, 85–112.

León, Johanset Orihuela. (2023). Revision of the extinct island-shrews Nesophontes (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Nesophontidae) from Cuba. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104544

Lopatin, A. V. (2021a). Dental Replacement in Nesophontidae (Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Cuba. Doklady Biological Sciences 497: 45-50. https://doi.org/10.1134/S001249662102006X [Abstract]

Lopatin, A. V. (2021b). Dentition Anomalies in Nesophontidae (Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Cuba. Doklady Biological Sciences 497: 51-55. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496621020071 [Abstract]

MacPhee, R. D. E., Flemming, C. and Lunde, D. P. (1999). "Last occurrence" of the Antillean insectivoran Nesophontes: New radiometric dates and their interpretation. American Museum Novitates 3261: 1-20.

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.

Orihuela, Johanset et al. (2020a). Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: stratigraphy, last appearance dates, diversity and paleoecology. bioRxiv preprint. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.17.909663

Orihuela, Johanset, Pérez Orozco, Leonel, Álvarez Licourt, Jorge L., Viera Muñoz, Ricardo A., and Santana Barani, Candido. (2020b). Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: Stratigraphy, chronology, diversity, and paleoecology. Palaeontologia Electronica, 23(3):a57. https://doi.org/10.26879/995

Pino, M. y J. Febles. (1985). Restos de Nesophontes major Arredondo, en la región central de Cuba. Miscelanea Zoológica 25: 3-4.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Turvey, S. and Helgen, K. (2008). Nesophontes major. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 15 August 2013.

Turvey, S.T. & Helgen, K. 2017. Nesophontes major. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T136381A22281785. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T136381A22281785.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. 2005. Mammal Species of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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