Twisted-toothed mouse
Appearance
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Twisted-toothed mouse Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Early Holocene
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | †Heptaxodontidae |
Genus: | †Quemisia Miller, 1929 |
Species: | †Q. gravis
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Binomial name | |
†Quemisia gravis Miller, 1929
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The twisted-toothed mouse (Quemisia gravis), also known as the twisted-toothed giant hutia[1] is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae.[1] It is monotypic within the genus Quemisia.[1] It was endemic to Hispaniola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.