Biology:Wide-toothed hutia

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Short description: Extinct species of rodent

Wide-toothed hutia
Temporal range: Late Holocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Tribe: Plagiodontini
Genus: Plagiodontia
Species:
P. araeum
Binomial name
Plagiodontia araeum
(Ray, 1964)
Synonyms
  • Hyperplagiodontia araeum

The wide-toothed hutia (Plagiodontia araeum) is an extinct species of hutia that was native to Hispaniola.[1][2]

References

  1. "Catalogue of Life". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/e892584bf10f5c28b44ccbb752b78ce4. 
  2. 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. Accessed at https://www.mammaldiversity.org/explore.html#species-id=1001390.

Wikidata ☰ Q3330585 entry