Solenodon Brandt, 1833 . Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersbourg, ser. 6, 2:459.

TYPE SPECIES: Solenodon paradoxus Brandt, 1833 .

SYNONYMS: Antillogale, Atopogale .

COMMENTS: Includes Antillogale and Atopogale; see Patterson (1962:2) and Varona (1974:6). Besides the two extant species, two presumably extinct species have been described from Cuba ("Giant Solenodon ") and Hispaniola ( Antillogale marcanoi Patterson, 1962); see Morgan and Woods (1986). Remains of Solenodon marcanoi have been found in a horizon of "Late Pleistocene or Recent" age (Patterson, 1962).