Nesophontes Anthony, 1916

Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 69-130 : 69

Nesophontes Anthony, 1916 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 35:725.

TYPE SPECIES: Nesophontes edithae Anthony, 1916 .

COMMENTS: All species of Nesophontes appear to have survived the late Pleistocene extinction, at least five species are known to have existed into post Columbian times, and several species apparently did not go extinct until the early part of this century ( Morgan and Woods, 1986). Includes an undescribed species from the Cayman Isis which was found in post-Columbian deposits ( Morgan and Woods, 1986; Varona, 1974).