| Corsican Giant Shrew | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Fossil
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Soricomorpha |
| Family: | Soricidae |
| Genus: | †Nesiotites |
| Species: | †N. corsicanus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Nesiotites corsicanus Bate, 1945 |
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The Corsican Giant Shrew (Nesiotites corsicanus) is an extinct shrew from the island of Corsica.
It is only known from fossil remains from "Teppa di Lupino" in "North Corsica".[1] The reasons for the extinction for this poorly known species remained unknown, but it is assumed that competition with other shrews as well as introduced goats might have played a role. It died out sometime between 2.5 and 6 thousand years ago.[2]