HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER SORICOMORPHA
--> FAMILY Solenodontidae
--> GENUS Solenodon
SPECIES Solenodon cubanus
Author: | Peters, 1861. | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1861: 169. | Common Name: | Cuban Solenodon | Type Locality: | Cuba, Oriente Prov., Bayamo. | Distribution: | Extant only in SE Cuba; Late Quaternary and Amerindian sites all over the island (Ottenwalder, 2001:317). | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Sometimes placed in a distinct genus or subgenus, Atopogale, see Hall and Kelson (1959:22) and Hall (1981:22), but see Poduschka and Poduschka (1983:225-238) who regarded Atopogale as a synonym of Solenodon. For biological information see Varona (1983b) and Ottenwalder (2001). |
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