Oligoryzomys victus (Thomas, 1898:178)
St. Vincent pygmy rice rat, St. Vincent colilargo, St Vincent rice rat, Pygmy rice rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Oryzomys victus Thomas, 1898:178
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1892 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017; Turvey & Dávalos, 2019)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Only known from the holotype.
Distribution
St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from the holotype.
Holotype: BMNH 97.12.26.1 (adult female)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Thomas, Oldfield. (1898). On indigenous Muridae in the West Indies; with the description of a new Mexican Oryzomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 1:176-180.
Other references:
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Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., MacPhee, R.D.E., Beck, R.M.D., Grenyer, R., Price, S.A., Vos, R.A., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. 2007). The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446, 507-512.
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Mistretta, Brittany A., Giovas, Christina M., Weskler, Marcelo and Turvey, Samuel T. (2021). Extinct insular oryzomyine rice rats (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from the Grenada Bank, southern Caribbean. Zootaxa 4951(3): 434-460. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.2
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Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
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Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
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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