Oriente Cave Rat

Oriente Cave Rat
Oriente Cave Rat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Genus: †Boromys
Species: †B. offella
Binomial name
†Boromys offella
Miller, 1916

The Oriente Cave Rat (Boromys offella) was a species of rodent in the Echimyidae family. It was endemic to Cuba. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is known from recent fossil records, and may have become extinct with the introduction of other rats.

References

  1. ^ Turvey, S. & Helgen, K. (2008). Boromys offella. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2008.
  • Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. Pp 1538-1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

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