Megalomys luciae Forsyth Major, 1901:206
Santa Lucian pilorie, Santa Lucia giant rice rat, St Lucia musk rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Oryzomys luciae Forsyth Major, 1901
Conservation Status
Last record: 1852?; Before 1881 (Turvey & Helgen, 2008)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles
Biology
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.
Brace, Selina et al. (2015). Unexpected evolutionary diversity in a recently extinct Caribbean mammal radiation. Proc Biol Sci. B 282(1807): 20142371.
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.
Ray, C. E. (1962). Oryzomyine rodents of the Antillean subregion. Unpubl. Ph. D. dissertation, Harvard University, 356 pp.
Turvey, S. and Helgen, K. (2008). Megalomys luciae. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (https://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 July 2013.
Turvey, S.T., Weksler, M., Morris, E.L. & Nokkert, M. (2010) Taxonomy, phylogeny and diversity of the extinct Lesser Antillean rice rats (Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini), with description of a new genus and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 748-772.
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