Plagiodontia velozi Rimoli, 1976
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 10,995 ± 190 Cal. yBP (Cooke & Crowley, 2022)
Distribution
Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
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
Cooke, Siobhán Bríghid and Crowley, Brooke Erin. (2022). New radiocarbon dates reveal pan-Holocene deposition of rodents at Trouing Jérémie #5, a sinkhole in the western Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti. The Holocene 32(9): 991-997. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221101279
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.
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.