Plagiodontia spelaeum Miller, 1929
Cave hutia, Hispaniolan hutia, Least Hispaniolan hutia, Zagouti
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c.1750 (Day, 1981)
Distribution
Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller. (1929). Smithsonian Misc.Colln. 81 (9): 18.
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.
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.
Hansford, James, Nuñez-Miño, J. M., Young, R. P., Brace, S., Brocca, J. L. and Turvey, Samuel 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.
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.
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.