Notiosorex dalquesti, or Dalquest's shrew, is an extinct species of shrew that was found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico during the Pleistocene and possibly the Holocene.

Notiosorex dalquesti
Temporal range: Pleistocene - Holocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Eulipotyphla
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Notiosorex
Species:
N. dalquesti
Binomial name
Notiosorex dalquesti
Carroway, 2010

Fossils of Dalquest's shrew were once thought to belong to the living Crawford's gray shrew but have since been classified as a distinct species.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Carraway, L. N. (2010). "Fossil History of Notiosorex (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) Shrews with Descriptions of New Fossil Species". Western North American Naturalist. 70 (2): 144–163. doi:10.3398/064.070.0202. S2CID 86042657.