| Cayman nesophontes[1] Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Holocene
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Extinct (c.1632-1774)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | †Nesophontidae |
| Genus: | †Nesophontes |
| Species: | †N. hemincingulus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Nesophontes hemincingulus Morgan et al., 2019
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The Cayman nesophontes (Nespohontes hemicingulus) is an extinct eulipotyphlan of the genus Nesophontes that was once endemic to the Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac); the animal lived in the island montane forest/brush endemic to the Cayman Islands and was an insectivore.[2] It is known from subfossil remains, that bear bite marks attributed to crocodiles, collected from caves, sinkholes and peat deposits on the Islands between the 1930s and the 1990s. It was named in 2019.[3][4]
- ^ Hutterer, R. (2005). "Order Soricomorpha". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Three new mammal species discovered in Cayman Islands after bones found inside crocodiles". The Independent. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ^ Gary S. Morgan; Ross D.E. Macphee; Roseina Woods; Samuel T. Turvey (2019). "Late Quaternary fossil mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2019 (428): 1–82. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.428.1.1. hdl:2246/6928. S2CID 92503421.
- ^ "Nesophontes hemicingulus". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. 1.5. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 10 September 2021.