Megalomys

Megalomys desmarestii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Cladus: Gliriformes Grandordo: Glires Mirordo: Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Cricetidae
Subfamilia: Sigmodontinae
Tribe: Oryzomyini
Genus: †Megalomys
Species (†5): †M. audreyae – †M. camerhogne – †M. curazensis – †M. desmarestii – †M. georginae – †M. luciae

Name

†Megalomys Trouessart, 1881: 357

• Type species: Mus pilorides Desmarest, 1826, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Trouessart, E.-L. 1881. Note sur le Mus pilorides ou rat musqué de Antilles, considéré comme type diun sous-genre nouveau dan le genre Hesperomys. Le Naturaliste 1(45): 355–357. BHL

Additional references

• Turvey, S.T., Brace, S. & Weksler, M. 2012. A new species of recently extinct rice rat (Megalomys) from Barbados. Mammalian Biology 77(6): 404–413. DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2012.03.005 Reference page. 
• Brace, S., Turvey, S.T., Weksler, M., Hoogland, M.L.P. & Barnes, I. 2015. Unexpected evolutionary diversity in a recently extinct Caribbean mammal radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282(1807): 20142371. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2371 Reference page. 
• Mistretta, B.A., Giovas, C.M., Weksler, M. & Turvey, S.T. 2021. Extinct insular oryzomyine rice rats (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from the Grenada Bank, southern Caribbean. Zootaxa 4951(3): 434–460. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Megalomys in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Karibische Riesenreisratten
English: Giant Rice Rats

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