Nesophontes paramicrus Miller, 1929
St. Michel nesophontes, Hispaniolan nesophont
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1500 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Haiti, Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, 1929. [description Nesophontes paramicrus]. Smithson. Misc. Coll., 81(9): 3.
Other references:
Asher, R.J. 2005 Insectivoran-grade placentals. In The rise of placental mammals: origins and relationships of the major extant clades (ed. K.D. Rose & J.D. Archibald), pp. 50–70. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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.
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Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
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
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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.
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Turvey, Samuel T. (2010). Evolution of non-homologous venom delivery systems in West Indian insectivores? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 1294-1299.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
Turvey, Samuel T. and Helgen, K. (2008). Nesophontes paramicrus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 15 August 2013.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Helgen, K. (2017). Nesophontes paramicrus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T14674A22281668. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T14674A22281668.en. Accessed on 20 June 2022.
Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Past and present of insular Caribbean mammals: understanding Holocene extinctions to inform modern biodiversity conservation. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 913-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx079
Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. 2005. Mammal Species of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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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