Nesophontes (SciiFii)

Nesophontes, sometimes called West Indies shrews and the West Indian shrews, is the sole genus of the monotypic mammal family Nesophontidae in the order Eulipotyphla. This group was once extinct since the Early Holocene, but all 10 known species of Nesophontes have since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced throughout Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands to help boost biodiversity. These animals are small insectivores, about 5 to 15 cm long, with a long slender snout and head and a long tail. The closest relatives of the Nesophontes are the solenodons, although the two groups diverged more than 40 million years ago. The conservation status of the all known Nesophontes species is either Near Threatened or Vulnerable due to some habitat loss and historic invasive species, however, thanks to conservationists, all living species of Nesophontes are a protected species and the invasive rats and mice are under control due to new poisons that only affects house mice, brown rats, and black rats, while not impacting any other species.
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