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The Saint Lucia Giant Rice-rat (Megalomys luciae) is an extinct[1] rodent that lived on the island of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean. It was the size of a small cat and had a darker belly than the Antillean Giant Rice Rat and had slender claws. The last known specimen died the London Zoo in 1852, after three years of captivity.[2] It probably became extinct in the latter half of the nineteenth century, with the last record dating from 1881.[citation needed] There is a specimen in the Natural History Museum, London.
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