Isolobodon montanus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	RODENTIA	CAPROMYIDAE

Scientific Name:	Isolobodon montanus
Species Authority:	(Miller, 1922)
Common Name/s: English – Montane Hutia

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Published:	2008
Assessor/s:	Turvey, S. & Helgen, K.
Reviewer/s:	McKnight, M. (Global Mammal Assessment Team) & Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority)
Justification: Listed as Extinct. The species is known from recent fossil deposits which also contain rats, suggesting that it persisted until the modern era and that the extinction followed the arrival of European settlers.
History:	1996 – Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species was known from Hispaniola.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Dominican Republic; Haiti
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Population [top]

Population:

This species is extinct.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Not known.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

Likely extinct due to rats, however, this is not known.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:

None.

Bibliography [top]

IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008). Woods, C. A. and Kilpatrick, C. W. 2005. Infraorder Hystricognathi. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 1538-1599. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.