Nesiotites Temporal range:
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Size comparison of the Balearic shrew Nesiotites hidalgo (top) with a water shrew (Neomys, below) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Eulipotyphla |
Family: | Soricidae |
Tribe: | Nectogalini |
Genus: | †Nesiotites Bate, 1945 |
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Nesiotites is an extinct genus of large red-toothed shrews belonging to the tribe Nectogalini known from the latest Miocene/Early Pliocene to Holocene of the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Menorca.