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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
,
mole
s and
desmans
. Only one Caribbean family, that of the
solenodons
, is still extant; the other,
Nesophontidae
, went extinct within the last few centuries.
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