Biology:Hyperplagiodontia

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Short description: Extinct species of rodent

Hyperplagiodontia
Temporal range: Early Holocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Tribe: Plagiodontini
Genus: Hyperplagiodontia
Species:
H. araeum
Binomial name
Hyperplagiodontia araeum
(Ray, 1964)
Synonyms
  • Plagiodontia araeum
  • Hyperplagiodontia stenocoronalis (Rímoli, 1976 [1977])[1]

Hyperplagiodontia, rarely called the wide-toothed hutia, is an extinct genus of hutia which contains a single species, Hyperplagiodontia araeum.[2] The species was originally described as a member of the genus Plagiodontia along with the extant Hispaniolan hutia (P. aedium), but after morphometric analysis in 2012, was moved to its own genus, Hyperplagiodontia.[3][4] Fossils of H. araeum have only been found on Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

References

  1. Borroto-Páez, Rafael; Woods, Charles Arthur; Sergile, Florence Etienne (2012). "Updated checklist of endemic terrestrial mammals of the West Indies". Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. ISBN 978-0965386470. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273831338_UPDATED_CHECKLIST_OF_ENDEMIC_TERRESTRIAL_MAMMALS_OF_THE_WEST_INDIES. 
  2. "Catalogue of Life". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/e892584bf10f5c28b44ccbb752b78ce4. 
  3. Hansford, J., Nuñez-Miño, J. M., Young, R. P., Brace, S., Brocca, J. L., & Turvey, S. T. (2012). Taxonomy-testing and the ‘Goldilocks Hypothesis': morphometric analysis of species diversity in living and extinct Hispaniolan hutias. Systematics and Biodiversity, 10(4), 491-507.|Fabre, P.-H., Upham, N. S., Emmons, L. H., Justy, F., Leite, Y. L. R., Loss, A. C., Orlando, L., Tilak, M.-K., Patterson, B. D., and Douzery, E. J. P. (2017). Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (3): 613–633.
  4. "Hyperplagiodontia araeum". American Society of Mammalogists. https://mammaldiversity.org/species-account/species-id=1001390. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3330585 entry