Brotomys

Brotomys Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Echimyidae
Subfamily:	†Heteropsomyinae
Genus:	†Brotomys Miller, 1916
Species
†Brotomys contractus †Brotomys voratus

Brotomys is an extinct genus of rodent in the Echimyidae family.^[1] It contains the following species:

Haitian Edible Rat (Brotomys contractus)
Hispaniolan Edible Rat (Brotomys voratus)

References

^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400549.