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Brotomys voratus Miller, 1916:7

Hispaniolan edible rat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: between 1536 and 1546

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Hispaniola (including La Gonave Island)

 

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 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

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

McFarlane, D.A., A. Vale, K. Christenson, J. Lundberg, G. Atilles, and S.E. Lauritzen. (2000). New specimens of Late Quaternary extinct mammals from caves in Sanchez Ramirez Province, Dominican Republic. Caribbean Journal of Science 36: 163-166.

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, S.T. 2009. Holocene mammal extinctions. In: Turvey, S.T. (ed.), Holocene Extinctions, pp. 352. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Turvey, S. & Helgen, K. (2008). Brotomys voratus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 01 July 2011.

Turvey, S. & Helgen, K. 2016. Brotomys voratus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T3121A22205792. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T3121A22205792.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.

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