Greater Cuban nesophontes

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Greater Cuban nesophontes
Jaw of a male N. major

Extinct (1500s)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 eulipotyphlan that was native to Cuba.[2] It is thought that the introduction of rats lead to its demise.

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