Greater Cuban nesophontes

Greater Cuban nesophontes
Conservation status
	; Extinct (1500s) (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Nesophontidae
Genus:	Nesophontes
Species:	N. major
Binomial name
	Nesophontes major; Arredondo, 1970

The greater Cuban nesophontes (Nesophontes major) is an extinct species of soricomorph that was native to Cuba.^[2] It is thought that the introduction of rats lead to its demise.

References

^ Template:IUCN2008
^ Hutterer, R. (2005). "Order Soricomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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[1] Template:IUCN2008

[msw3-2] Hutterer, R. (2005). "Order Soricomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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