Caenolestoides, Abello & Martin & Cardoso, 2021

Abello, María Alejandra, Martin, Gabriel M. & Cardoso, Yamila, 2021, Review of the extinct ‘ shrew-opossums’ (Marsupialia: Caenolestidae), with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the Early Miocene of southern South America, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 : -

CAENOLESTOIDES GEN. NOV.

( FIG. 10F–J)

Zoobank registration: lsid: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:927D1B95-DF85-423F-91C8-25E199FC9521

Etymology: The genus is composed of the genus Caenolestes (from Greek καινος, new, and ληστες, robber or pirate) to which it bears similarities and the Greek suffix -εἶδος, form, likeness.

Type species: Caenolestoides miocaenicus .