Hyperplagiodontia, rarely called the wide-toothed hutia, is an extinct genus of hutia which contains a single species, Hyperplagiodontia araeum.[2] The species was originally described as a member of the genus Plagiodontia along with the extant Hispaniolan hutia (P. aedium), but after morphometric analysis in 2012, was moved to its own genus, Hyperplagiodontia.[3][4] Fossils of H. araeum have only been found on Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
| Hyperplagiodontia Temporal range: Early Holocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Tribe: | Plagiodontini |
| Genus: | †Hyperplagiodontia Rimoli, 1977 |
| Species: | †H. araeum
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| †Hyperplagiodontia araeum (Ray, 1964)
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References
edit- ^ Borroto-Páez, Rafael; Woods, Charles Arthur; Sergile, Florence Etienne (2012). "Updated checklist of endemic terrestrial mammals of the West Indies". Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. ISBN 978-0965386470.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life".
- ^ Hansford, J., Nuñez-Miño, J. M., Young, R. P., Brace, S., Brocca, J. L., & Turvey, S. T. (2012). Taxonomy-testing and the ‘Goldilocks Hypothesis': morphometric analysis of species diversity in living and extinct Hispaniolan hutias. Systematics and Biodiversity, 10(4), 491-507.|Fabre, P.-H., Upham, N. S., Emmons, L. H., Justy, F., Leite, Y. L. R., Loss, A. C., Orlando, L., Tilak, M.-K., Patterson, B. D., and Douzery, E. J. P. (2017). Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (3): 613–633.
- ^ "Hyperplagiodontia araeum". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. 1.5. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
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