Biology:Atalaye nesophontes

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Short description: Extinct species of mammal endemic to Hispaniola

Atalaye nesophontes
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Nesophontidae
Genus: Nesophontes
Species:
N. hypomicrus
Binomial name
Nesophontes hypomicrus
Miller, 1929

The Atalaye nesophontes (Nesophontes hypomicrus) is an extinct species of mammal in the family Nesophontidae.[2] It was endemic to Hispaniola in the Caribbean (in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and is only known from fossil deposits.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1768390 entry