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GENUS Solenodon

Author:Brandt, 1833.
Citation:Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersbourg, ser. 6, 2: 459.
Type Species:Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, 1833.
Comments:Reviewed by Ottenwalder (2001). Includes Antillogale and Atopogale; see Patterson (1962:2) and Varona (1974:6). Besides the two extant species, two extinct species have been described from Cuba (Giant Solenodon) and Hispaniola (Antillogale marcanoi Patterson, 1962); see Morgan and Woods (1986). Remains of Solenodon marcanoi have been found in a horizon of "Late Pleistocene or Recent" age (Patterson, 1962).
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SPECIES arredondoi

SPECIES cubanus

SPECIES marcanoi

SPECIES paradoxus

SUBSPECIES paradoxus

SUBSPECIES woodi

Synonyms:

    Antillogale Patterson, 1962
    Atopogale Cabrera, 1925

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