Nesiotites

Nesiotites
Temporal range: Early Pliocene–Holocene
Size comparison of the Balearic shrew Nesiotites hidalgo (top) with a water shrew (Neomys, below)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Tribe: Nectogalini
Genus: Nesiotites
Bate, 1945
Species
  • N. hidalgo Bate, 1945 (type)
  • N. meloussae Pons and Moyà, 1980
  • N. ponsi Reumer, 1979
  • N. rafelinensis? Rofes et al, 2012

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.