Hispaniolan Edible Rat

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Hispaniolan Edible Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: Brotomys
Species: B. voratus
Binomial name
Brotomys voratus
Miller, 1916

The Hispaniolan Edible Rat (Brotomys voratus) is an extinct species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It was found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

[edit] References

  • Baillie, J. 1996. Brotomys voratus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  • Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.