List of eulipotyphlans of the Caribbean

The Caribbean region is home to two unique families of the mammalian order Eulipotyphla (incorporating the now defunct order Soricomorpha), which also includes the hedgehogs, gymnures shrews, moles and desmans.

[2] DNA evidence suggests that solenodons are a sister group to a clade of shrews, moles, and erinaceids, with a molecular clock, providing evidence that the split from the other families occurred in the Cretaceous period, late in the Mesozoic era.

Isla de la Juventud is a large island south of Cuba.

Two extinct undescribed species of Nesophontes are known from several cave deposits on the Cayman Islands, a British archipelago south of Cuba.

[12] In the youngest layers of several deposits, Nesophontes is found together with introduced Rattus, indicating that its extinction occurred relatively recently.

Yellow-furred, long-nosed mammal.
The Hispaniolan solenodon , one of two surviving Caribbean eulipotyphlans.
Long-nosed, hedgehog-like animal, darker above than below.
Drawing of the Cuban solenodon.
Stones and vegetation, with a long-legged, long-nosed animal in the middle.
Solenodon paradoxus .
Long-nosed mammal, brown above and yellow below.
Reconstruction of Nesophontes edithae .