Plagiodontia
| Plagiodontia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Capromyidae |
| Subfamily: | Plagiodontinae |
| Genus: | Plagiodontia F. Cuvier, 1836 |
Plagiodontia is a genus of rodent in the family Capromyidae. The name Plagiodontia means "oblique tooth" in Greek.
This genus contains the following four species (three of them extinct):
- Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) F. Cuvier, 1836
- † Wide-toothed hutia (Plagiodontia araeum) Ray, 1964
- † Samana hutia (Plagiodontia ipnaeum) Johnson, 1948
- † Plagiodontia spelaeum
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