Authority citation: Morgan, G.S., MacPhee, R.D.E., Woods, R. and Turvey, S.T. 2019-03-04. Late Quaternary fossil mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 428:1-79.
Authority publication link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61709420
Original name as described: Nesophontes hemicingulus
Nominal names: hemicingulus G. S. Morgan, MacPhee, R. Woods, & Turvey, 2019
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Eulipotyphla -- Family: Nesophontidae
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: UF:VP:23295
Type locality: Patton's Fissure, near Spot Bay, N coast of Cayman Brac, Cayman Is.
Past geographic Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Cayman Islands (CYM)
Species Status: This species went extinct in the last 500 years, it lived in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Not evaluated
Species-specific notes: recently described extinct species
Citation: Morgan, G. S., Macphee, R. D., Woods, R., & Turvey, S. T. (2019). Late Quaternary fossil mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2019(428), 1-82.
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