Plagiodontia spelaeum
G. S. Miller, 1929
Small Haitian 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
Authority citation
Miller, G.S., Jr. 1929-03-30. A second collection of Mammals from caves near St. Michel, Haiti. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 81(9):1-30.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8915374Original name as described
Plagiodontia spelaeum
Type material
USNM:PAL:303802 (= USNM:MAMM:253160)
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d5320367-d256-41e2-b538-17c362f07ba7Type locality
in the crooked cave near the Atalaya plantation, Haiti.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Haiti · Dominican Republic
Taxonomy notes
split from P. aedium; 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
Not Evaluated
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