Order Insectivora
Author
Rainer Hutterer
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
69
130
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353085
1-56098-217-9
7353085
Solenodon
Brandt, 1833
.
Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersbourg, ser. 6, 2:459
.
TYPE SPECIES:
Solenodon paradoxus
Brandt, 1833
.
SYNONYMS:
Antillogale, Atopogale
.
COMMENTS: Includes
Antillogale
and
Atopogale
;
see
Patterson (1962:2)
and
Varona (1974:6)
. Besides the two extant species, two presumably 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
).