Plagiodontia ipnaeum

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	RODENTIA	CAPROMYIDAE

Scientific Name:	Plagiodontia ipnaeum
Species Authority:	Johnson, 1948
Common Name/s: English – Samana Hutia
Synonym/s:	Plagiodontia velozi Rimoli, 1976

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 3.1
Year Assessed:	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 (Baillie and Groombridge 1996) 1994 – Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	The species is known from recent fossil deposits in Hispaniola. It is possible at this species is the animal referred to as "Quemi" by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes who lived in Hispaniola between 1536-1546 (Miller 1929). There is also a remote possibility that this represents an animal referred to as "comadreja" which allegedly survived into the 20th Century (Woods et al. 1985)
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Dominican Republic; Haiti

Population [top]

Population:

Extinct.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known about this species' habitat or ecology.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

The fossil deposits from which this is known from also contained rat remains. This suggests that the species persisted until the modern era and that the extinction followed the arrival of European settlers.

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.