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Isolobodon montanus Miller, 1922

Montane hutia, Hispaniolan narrow-toothed hutia, Narrow-toothed hutia

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Aphaetraeus montanus Miller, 1922

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: after 1500 AD; 1600 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Hispaniola

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Miller, G. S. (1922). Remains of mammals from caves in the Republic of Haiti (Vol. 74). The Smithsonian Institution.

 

Other references:

Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Mancina, Carlos A., Woods, Charles A. and Kilpatrick, C. William. (2012). Checklist: Updated Checklist of Endemic Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies, pp. 389-415. In: Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History and Wacahoota Press. 482 pp.

Cooke, Siobhán B. and Crowley, Brooke E. (2018). Deciphering the isotopic niches of now-extinct Hispaniolan rodents. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(5): e1510414. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2018.1510414

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x

Goodwin, Harry A. and Goodwin, J. M. (1973). List of mammals which have become extinct or are possibly extinct since 1600. Int. Union Conserv. Nat. Occas. Pap. 8: 1-20.

Rimoli, R. (1979). Dos casos de molar supernumerario en la especie Isolobodon montanus.(Deux cas de molaires surnuméraires de l'espèces im). Boletin del Museo del Hombre Dominicano Saint-Domingue 8(12): 257-260.

Shev, Gene T. and Laffoon, Jason E. (2022). Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic: Discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3149

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]

Turvey, S. T. and Helgen, K. (2008). Isolobodon montanus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 December 2012.

Turvey, S.T. and Helgen, K. (2018). Isolobodon montanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T10859A22186956. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T10859A22186956.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.

Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Past and present of insular Caribbean mammals: understanding Holocene extinctions to inform modern biodiversity conservation. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 913-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx079

Woods, C. A. (1989). The biogeography of West Indian rodents, pp. 741-798. In: Woods, C. A. (ed.). Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, Present, and Future. Gainesville, Florida: Sandhill Crane Press.

Woods, C.A., Borroto Paéz, R. & Kilpatrick, C.W. 2001. Insular patterns and radiations of West Indian rodents. In Biogeography of the West Indies: patterns and perspectives (ed. C.A. Woods & F.E. Sergile), pp. 335-353. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Woods, C.A. and Kilpatrick, C.W. 2005. Infraorder Hystricognathi. In: Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 1538-1599. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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