Solenodontidae

This family includes/understands only one kind:
particular Solenodon or almiquis in the Antilles and three species:

These insectivorous night present only at Cuba and on the island of Hispaniola are in process of extinction. Their form points out that of the Musaraignes, but of bigger size. Their Muzzle, very length, is reinforced by a Os, the bone proboscidien . These Mammifères produces a toxic saliva which is propagated in the body of their preys when they bite them.

The family of Solenodontidae includes/understands night, digger and insectivorous mammals. One knows of them only two kinds, Almiqui and Solenodon, which summarize with them the two existing species.

Often compared with the Shrew S, let us solenodons them resemble the rats with an extremely lengthened cartilagineux muzzle, a long, naked and scaly tail, small eyes and a rough hair energy of brown dark with the black. Measuring between 70-80 centimetres length of the muzzle to the tail, let us solenodons them have the reputation to be irascible and they push cries or are able to bite with the least sign of provocation.

The two species of let us solenodons existing are the solenodon of Cuba ( Atopogale cubana ) and the solenodon of Haiti or Hispaniola ( Solenodon paradoxus ) (Hispaniola indicating the island divided between the Dominican Republic and the Haitian Republic). Both are now species threatened in danger because they are the prey of the Mangouste S ( Herpestes auropunctatus ), introduced at the time colonial making the hunting for the snakes and the rats, and also of the cats and the wild dogs. The Haitian solenodon is practically extinguished, and one meets only exceptionally traces of their existence. It was thought that the solenodon of Cuba had disappeared until the discovery from an alive specimen in 2003. The solenodon of Marcano ( Solenodon marcanoi ) disappeared during the Holocène.

Let us solenodons refer some really curious, whose position of tétines (2) in the female, practically on behind animal, and also poisonous saliva produced by salivary glands modified jaw lower and who runs out by furrows marked on the second lower incisors. The word solenodon comes from the Greek and means “grooved tooth”. The solenodon belongs to the rare mammals to be poisonous.

The Solenodon kind is interesting for the researchers into phylogenetic because it preserved certain characteristics of the primitive mammals. Their species resemble of very close with those which lived towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs.

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