St. Michel nesophontes

St. Michel nesophontes
Conservation status
Extinct  (early or the late 1500s)  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	† Nesophontidae
Genus:	† Nesophontes
Species:	†N. paramicrus
Binomial name
†Nesophontes paramicrus Miller, 1929

The St. Michel nesophontes (Nesophontes paramicrus) is an extinct species of mammal in the family Nesophontidae. ^[2] It was endemic to Hispaniola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

Taxonomy

A phylogenetic study in 2016, based on DNA extracted and carbon-dated from a specimen about 750 years old, suggests their nearest relatives are the solenodons, although the two groups diverged more than 40 million years ago. ^[3]

History

The type specimen was collected in Cueva de Bosque Humido, Los Haitises National Park, Hato Mayor Province, Dominican Republic.

References

1. Turvey, S.T.; Helgen, K. (2017). "Nesophontes paramicrus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T14674A22281668. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T14674A22281668.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.{{cite iucn}}: uses deprecated |page= identifier (help)
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.
3. Brace, Selina; Thomas, Jessica A.; Dalén, Love; Burger, Joachim; MacPhee, Ross D.E.; Barnes, Ian & Turvey, Samuel T. (13 September 2016). "Evolutionary history of the Nesophontidae, the last unplaced Recent mammal family" (PDF). Molecular Biology and Evolution (Epub ahead of print). 33 (12): 3095–3103. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msw186 . PMID   27624716.