Puerto Rican hutia

Puerto Rican hutia
Fossil mandible

Extinct (~1525)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: †Isolobodon
Species:
†I. portoricensis
Binomial name
†Isolobodon portoricensis

The Puerto Rican hutia (Isolobodon portoricensis) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. It was found on Hispaniola (today the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and Gonâve Island; it was introduced to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.[2]

  1. ^ Turvey, S.T. & Dávalos, L. (2018). "Isolobodon portoricensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T10860A22186876. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T10860A22186876.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Isolobodon portoricensis J. A. Allen, 1916". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 15 November 2022.