Nesiotites

Nesiotites Temporal range: Early Pliocene–Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Size comparison of the Balearic shrew Nesiotites hidalgo (top) with a water shrew (Neomys, below)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Eulipotyphla
Family:	Soricidae
Tribe:	Nectogalini
Genus:	†Nesiotites Bate, 1945
Species
†N. hidalgo Bate, 1945 (type) †N. meloussae Pons and Moyà, 1980 †N. ponsi Reumer, 1979 †N. rafelinensis? Rofes et al, 2012

Nesiotites is an extinct genus of large red-toothed shrews belonging to the tribe Nectogalini that inhabited the Balearic Islands from the latest Miocene/Early Pliocene (from around 5 million years ago) up until the arrival of humans on the islands during the late Holocene (around 2500-2300 BC). It was present on Mallorca and Menorca. It represented one of only 3 native land mammals to the islands at the time of human arrival, alongside the goat-antelope Myotragus and the giant dormouse Hypnomys. The genus is closely related to the also recently extinct Corsican-Sardinian shrews belonging to the genus Asoriculus, with their closest living relatives being the Himalayan shrews of the genus Soriculus.