Hispaniolan Solenodon

• fisiologíaIt is one of the few venomous mammals: it injects toxic saliva through a specialised groove in its lower incisors.
• historia naturalIt is one of the few living mammals whose lineage has come down practically unchanged from the age of the dinosaurs.
• It injects venomous saliva through a groove in its lower incisors: it is one of the very few venomous mammals in the world, alongside the platypus and the slow lorises.
• Its lineage split from the rest of the placental mammals more than seventy million years ago: it survived the extinction that ended the dinosaurs and is today threatened by domestic cats.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (mammal)

Habitat and environment

Moist and dry forest, karst scrub and plantations on the island of Hispaniola

Sexual maturity

2.3 years

Gestation / incubation

50 days

Litter / clutch size

2

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Solenodon paradoxus

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.