Plagiodontia aedium

F. Cuvier, 1836

Hispaniolan Hutia

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricomorpha
Infraorder : Hystricognathi
Superfamily : Octodontoidea
Family : Echimyidae
Subfamily : Capromyinae
Tribe : Plagiodontini
Genus : Plagiodontia

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (Paris), ser 2, vol. 6, 347

Original name as described

Plagiodontia aedium

Other common names

Cuvier's Hutia

Type material

MNHN 2M-MO-1982-894

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Saint-Dominguie."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Haiti · Dominican Republic

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. spelaeum; moved from Capromyidae to Echimyidae

Taxonomy notes citation

Hansford, J., Nuñez-Miño, J.M., Young, R.P., Brace, S., Brocca, J.L. and Turvey, S.T. 2012. Taxonomy-testing and the 'Goldilocks Hypothesis': morphometric analysis of species diversity in living and extinct Hispaniolan hutias. Systematics and Biodiversity 10(4):491-507. · Fabre, P.-H., Upham, N. S., Emmons, L. H., Justy, F., Leite, Y. L. R., Loss, A. C., Orlando, L., Tilak, M.-K., Patterson, B. D., and Douzery, E. J. P. (2017). Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (3): 613–633.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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