Isolobodon montanus (Miller, 1922)

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 803

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353083

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279612

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scientific name

Isolobodon montanus (Miller, 1922)
status

 

Isolobodon montanus (Miller, 1922) View in CoL . Smithson. Mise. Coll., 74:3.

TYPE LOCALITY: Haiti, Dept, de l'Artibonite, Cave NE of Saint Michel de l'Atalaye .

DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola and La Gonave Island.

STATUS: Extinct.

COMMENTS: Originally described in a separate genus from I. portoricensis because the enamel folds of the cheekteeth connect to form separate laminar plates, but a large series of each species indicates that this character is clinal, and that the two forms are very closely related.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

SubOrder

Hystricognathi

Family

Capromyidae

Genus

Isolobodon

Loc

Isolobodon montanus (Miller, 1922)

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Isolobodon montanus (Miller, 1922)

Miller 1922: 3
1922
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