Nesophontes superstes Fischer, 1977:221
Cuban nesophontes
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Fischer, K. (1977). Quartäre Mikromammalia Cubas, vorwiegend aus der Höhle San José de la Lamas, Sante Fé, Provinz Habana. Zeitschrift für geologische Wissenschaften, Berlin 5: 213-255.
Other references:
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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.
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.