Nesophontes zamicrus Miller, 1929:7
Haitian nesophontes, Least Hispaniolan nesophont, Haitian nesophont, Haitian island shrew, Haitian island-shrew
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1600 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Haiti, Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
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]
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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
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.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
MacPhee, R. D. E., Flemming, Clare and Lunde, D. P. (1999). "Last Occurrence" of the Antillean Insectivoran Nesophontes: 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 zamicrus. 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 zamicrus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T14676A22281556. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T14676A22281556.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.
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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