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Puertoricomys corozalus Williams & Koopman, 1951:4

Corozal Cave rat, Old Puerto Rican spiny rat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Proechimys corozalus Williams & Koopman, 1951:4

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Puerto Rico

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Williams, Ernest E. and Koopman, Karl F. (1951). A new fossil rodent from Puerto Rico. American Museum Novitates No. 1515, 9 pp.

 

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.

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 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]

Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Past and present of insular Caribbean mammals: understanding Holocene extinctions to inform modern biodiversity conservation. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 913-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx079

Woods, C.A., Borroto Paéz, R. & Kilpatrick, C.W. 2001 Insular patterns and radiations of West Indian rodents. In Biogeography of the West Indies: patterns and perspectives (ed. C.A. Woods & F.E. Sergile), pp. 335-353. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

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