Nesophontes

Nesophontes[1] Temporal range: Quaternary
Nesophontes edithae
Conservation status
Extinct (c. 1700)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	†Nesophontidae Anthony, 1916
Genus:	†Nesophontes Anthony, 1916
Species
†Nesophontes edithae †Nesophontes hemicingulus †Nesophontes hypomicrus †Nesophontes major †Nesophontes micrus †Nesophontes paramicrus †Nesophontes zamicrus

Nesophontes, sometimes called West Indies shrews, is the sole genus of the extinct, monotypic mammal family Nesophontidae in the order Eulipotyphla. These animals were small insectivores, about 5 to 15 cm long, with a long slender snout and head and a long tail. They were endemic to the Greater Antilles (except Jamaica), in Cuba, Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands.