Nesophontidae 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

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

COMMENTS: Known only from sub-Recent fossils from the Greater Antilles. One genus with eight taxa have been named, of which Hall (1981) listed six as valid species. Morgan and Woods (1986) recognized eight species. Recent efforts to locate surviving populations have been unsuccessful ( Woods et al., 1985). See also comments under Nesophontes .