Plagiodontia araeum Ray, 1964

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 804

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353083

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279620

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scientific name

Plagiodontia araeum Ray, 1964
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Plagiodontia araeum Ray, 1964 View in CoL . Breviora, Mus. Comp. Zool., 203:2.

TYPE LOCALITY: Dominican Republic, Prov. San Rafael, unnamed cave 2 km SE of Rancho de la Guardia (18°43'N, 71°39'W) GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola.

STATUS: Extinct.

SYNONYMS: stenocoronalis .

COMMENTS: Type description based on only left upper cheektooth (DP4). Subsequent fossil material collected in Haiti and deposited at the Florida Museum of Natural History includes complete cranial and dentary material, confirming the validity of this taxon. Hyperplagiodontia stenocoronalis of Rimoli (1976:34) is not distinct from P. araeum. A very large wide-toothed hutia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Capromyidae

Genus

Plagiodontia

Loc

Plagiodontia araeum Ray, 1964

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Plagiodontia araeum

Ray 1964: 2
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