Plagiodontia ipnaeum Johnson, 1948:72
Samana hutia, Hispaniolan hutia, Zagouti
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Plagiodontia velozi Rimoli, 1976?
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1500 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012); >1500 AD
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Johnson, D. H. (1948). A rediscovered Haitian rodent, Plagiodontia aedium, with a synopsis of related species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 61: 69-76.
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.
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
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
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.
Miller Jr GS (1929) Mammals eaten by Indians, owls, and Spaniards in the coast region of the Dominican Republic. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 82, 1–16.
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. and Helgen, K. (2008). Plagiodontia ipnaeum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 30 July 2013.
Turvey, S.T. & Helgen, K. 2018. Plagiodontia ipnaeum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T17462A22187847. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T17462A22187847.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.
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
Viñola-López, Lázaro W., Almonte-Milán, Juan N., Luthra, Alisa and Bloch, Jonathan I. (2024). New Quaternary mammals support regional endemism in western Hispaniola. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 31: 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09722-7
Woods, C. A. (1989). A new capromyid rodent from Haiti: the origin, evolution, and extinction of West Indian rodents and their bearing on the origin of New World hystricognaths. Los Angeles County Museum, Science Series 33: 59-89.
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.
Woods, C. A., J. A. Ottenwalder, and W. L. R. Oliver. 1985. Lost mammals of the Greater Antilles: Summarized findings of a ten week field survey in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico. Dodo (Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust), 22:23-42.
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