Quemisia gravis Miller, 1929:22
Twisted-toothed mouse, Twisted-toothed giant hutia, Hispaniolan quemi (Day, 1981)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: after 1500?
Distribution
Haiti, Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, G. S. Jnr. (1929). Mammals eaten by Indians, owls, and Spaniards in the coast region of the Dominican Republic. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 82: 1-16.
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.
Clayton, Ray Edward. (1965). The relationships of Quemisia gravis (Rodentia: H̉eptaxodontidae). Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 149(3): 12 pp.
Cooke, Siobhán B. and Crowley, Brooke E. (2018). Deciphering the isotopic niches of now-extinct Hispaniolan rodents. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(5): e1510414. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2018.1510414
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
McFarlane, D.A., A. Vale, K. Christenson, J. Lundberg, G. Atilles, and S.E. Lauritzen. (2000). New specimens of Late Quaternary extinct mammals from caves in Sanchez Ramirez Province, Dominican Republic. Caribbean Journal of Science 36: 163-166.
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
Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. 2005. Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
Woods, C. A. (1989). The biogeography of West Indian rodents, pp. 741-798. In: Woods, C. A. (ed.). Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, Present, and Future. Gainesville, Florida: Sandhill Crane Press.
Woods, C. A. and Ottenwalder, J. A. (1992). The Natural History of Southern Haiti. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press.
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