Nesiotites
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.
| Nesiotites Temporal range: | |
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| Size comparison of the Balearic shrew Nesiotites hidalgo (top) with a water shrew (Neomys, below) | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Eulipotyphla |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Tribe: | Nectogalini |
| Genus: | †Nesiotites Bate, 1945 |
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