Solenodon Paradoxus e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The brief history of this species is now well known. It was originally described in 1833 by J. F. Brandt from a skin and an imperfect skull, in the St. Petersburg Academy, from Haiti. This specimen was subsequently studied by Peters in connection with the Cuban species, described by him in 1864. Leche states that he too, made use of this skull and other fragments of the skeleton, when in 1907 he published his extensive paper on the teeth of the Insectivora. The exact nature of the other fragments is not stated but from the text it appears that a pelvis with the sacral vertebrae labeled as of this species, was among the material studied. These bones were figured by Leche who called attention to the remarkable characters shown by them in comparison with those of other Insectivora. There can be no doubt, as will be Shown later, that the pelvic and sacral bones figured are not those of Solenodon. Through the labors of Peters and Dobson, the anatomy of Solenodon cubanus was fairly Well known more than twenty years ago, but no additional specimens of S.