Saint Lucia Giant Rice-rat
- Saint Lucia Giant Rice-rat
Taxobox
name = Saint Lucia giant rice-rat
status = EX | status_system = IUCN2.3
extinct = 1881
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Sigmodontinae
genus = "Megalomys"
species = "M. luciae"
binomial = "Megalomys luciae"
binomial_authority = (Forsyth Major, 1901)
The Saint Lucia Giant Rice-rat ("Megalomys luciae") is an extinct[IUCN2006|assessors=Baillie|year=1996|id=12981|title=Megalomys luciae|downloaded=10 May 2006] rodent that lived on the island of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean. It was the size of a small cat and had a darker belly than the Antillean Giant Rice Rat and had slender claws. The last known specimen died the London Zoo in 1852, after three years of captivity.][cite book | author = Flannery, T., and P. Schouten | year = 2001 | title = A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals | publisher = William Heinemann | location = London | id = ISBN 0434008192 (UK edition)] It probably became extinct in the latter half of the nineteenth century, with the last record dating from 1881.Fact|date=February 2007 There is a specimen in the Natural History Museum, London.]References
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