Hispaniolan Edible Rat

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 family Echimyidae.[2] It was found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

This species is known from a single report from Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdez, who documented an animal called the Mohuy, similar to living spiny rats.

References

  1. ^ Turvey, S. & Helgen, K. (2008). Brotomys voratus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2008.
  2. ^ 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=13400551.