Pennatomys nivalis Turvey, Weksler, Morris & Nokkert, 2010
Nevis rice rat, St. Eustatius rice rat, St. Kitts rice rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Oryzomyini gen. et sp. indet. K (Turvey, 2009:53); Megalomys sp.1 (Borroto-Páez et al., 2012:399) (in part)
Reported material from this species potentially represents three distinct taxa (Brace et al. 2015).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene; 1930 (Turvey & Collen, 2011b)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Nevis, St. Eustatius & St. Kitts
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Turvey, S.T., Weksler, M., Morris, E.L. and 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.
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.
Brace, Selina et al. (2015). Unexpected evolutionary diversity in a recently extinct Caribbean mammal radiation. Proc Biol Sci. B 282(1807): 20142371.
Cooke, Siobhán B., Dávalos, Liliana M., Mychajliw, Alexis M. Turvey, Samuel T. and Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Anthropogenic Extinction Dominates Holocene Declines of West Indian Mammals. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 48: 301-327. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022754
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Merrill, G.C. 1958. The historical record of man as an ecological dominant in the Lesser Antilles. Canadian Geographer 3: 17-22.
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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Pregill GK, Steadman DW, and Watters DR (1994) Late Quaternary vertebrate faunas of the Lesser Antilles: historical components of C aribbean biogeography. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 30, 1–51.
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.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Collen, B. (2011a). Pennatomys nivalis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 18 April 2012.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Collen, B. (2011b). Pennatomys nivalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T199838A9129524. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T199838A9129524.en. Downloaded on 24 June 2021.
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]
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van der Klift, H. (1992). Faunal remains of Golden Rock, pp. 74-83. In: The Archaeology of St. Eustatius: The Golden Rock Site, edited by A. H. Verteeg and K. Schinkel. Foundation for Scientific Research in the Caribbean Region No. 131, Amsterdam.
Wing, Elizabeth S. (1995). Rice rats and Saladoid people as seen at Hope Estate, pp. 219-231. In: Alegría, R. E. and Rodríguez, M. (eds.). Proceedings of the XV International Congress for Caribbean archaeology. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y Caribe, Fundación Puertoriqueña de las Humanidades y la Universidad del Turabo.
Wing, Elizabeth S. and Scudder, S. J. (1980). Use of animal by the prehistoric inhabitants of St. Kitts, West Indies, pp. 237-245. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress for the Study of the Pre-Columbian Cultures of the Lesser Antilles, edited by S. M. Lewenstein. Arizona State University Anthropological Research Papers No. 22, Tempe.
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