Marcano's solenodon
{{Short description|Extinct species of mammal}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Marcano's solenodon
| status = EX
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| extinct = yes
| genus = Solenodon
| species = marcanoi
| authority = (Patterson, 1962)
| synonyms = *Atopogale marcanoi
- Antillogale marcanoi
}}
Marcano's solenodon (Solenodon marcanoi) is an extinct species of mammal in the family Solenodontidae known only from skeletal remains found on the island of Hispaniola (today the Dominican Republic and Haiti).{{MSW3 Soricomorpha |id=13700017 |heading=Solenodon marcanoi |page=223}}{{cite book|last=Ottenwalder|first=J.A.|editor1=Woods, C.A.|editor2=Sergile, F.E.|chapter= Systematics and biogeography of the West Indian genus Solenodon|title=Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f33LBQAAQBAJ|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=f33LBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA253|date=2001|pages= 253–330|publisher=CRC Press|location= Boca Raton, London, New York, and Washington, D.C.|doi= 10.1201/9781420039481-16 |isbn=978-1-4200-3948-1|oclc= 46240352}}{{Cite book|author=Piper, Ross|title=Extinct animals : an encyclopedia of species that have disappeared during human history|date=2009|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-34987-4|oclc=268789581}}
Etymology
The specific epithet, marcanoi, is in honor of the Dominican botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, speleologist and researcher Eugenio de Jesús Marcano Fondeur.
Description
The species was smaller than the other extant member of its genus, the sympatric Hispaniolan solenodon (S. paradoxus). Marcano's solenodon's limb bones were comparatively shorter than in S. paradoxus, suggesting smaller size and possibly short stature. Like its congenerics, it probably was a nocturnal, burrowing, shrew-like mammal with a long snout, that fed on insects, earthworms, small reptiles, birds, amphibians, and mammals.
History
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Category:Mammal extinctions since 1500
Category:Mammals of the Dominican Republic
Category:Endemic fauna of Hispaniola
Category:Extinct animals of Haiti
Category:Extinct animals of the Dominican Republic
Category:Mammals described in 1962
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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