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Geocapromys caymanensis Morgan et al., 2019

Cayman Brac hutia

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Geocapromys new species B

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Cayman Brac & Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Morgan, Gary S., MacPhee, Ross D. E., Woods, Roseina and Turvey, Samuel T. (2019). Late Quaternary fossil mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 428: 79 pp., 24 figures, 8 tables.

 

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.

Morgan, G. S. (1994). Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands Monographiae Biologicae 71: 465-508. [Abstract]

Moyne, W. E. G. (1938). Atlantic Circle. Blackie and Sons Ltd., London and Glasgow.

Scudder, S. J. and Quitmer, J. R. (1998). Evaluation of evidence of pre-Columbian human occupation at Great Cave, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands. Carib. J. Sci. 34(1-2): 41-49.

Turvey, S. T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions. Holocene extinctions, 41.

Westerman, J. H. (1953). Nature preservation in the Caribbean. Found. Sci. Res. Surinam and Netherlands Antilles, Utrecht, Publ. 9: 1-106.

http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9rjEbZWPLvcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA465&dq=The+birds+of+the+Cayman++Islands&ots=cSXdq5USHT&sig=w4T9GZO2XxeMj6ORy1HmES3_9BA#v=onepage&q=The%20birds%20of%20the%20Cayman%20%20Islands&f=false

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/19978/geocapromys-sp-2-cayman-brac

 

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