Osborn's Key Mouse

Osborn's Key Mouse
Osborn's Key Mouse[1]
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Conservation status
Prehistoric[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: †Heptaxodontidae
Genus: †Clidomys
Species: †C. osborni
Binomial name
Clidomys osborni
(Anthony, 1920)
Synonyms
  • cundalli (Anthony, 1920)
  • jamaicensis (Anthony, 1920)
  • major (Anthony, 1920)
  • parvus (Anthony, 1920)

The Osborn's Key Mouse (Clidomys osborni), also known as the Larger Jamaican Giant Hutia, is a now extinct species of large rodent in the Heptaxodontidae family.[3] It was found on the island of Jamaica and likely went extinct before the end of the Pleistocene.[2]

Synonyms

Clidomys parvus was thought to be a smaller and separate species from C. osborni but later investigation have shown that they may belong to the same species. The distinction is thought to have originated from the examination of juvenile specimens of C. osborni.[2]

References

  1. ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400605. 
  2. ^ a b c Morgan, Gary, S.; Wilkins, Laurie (2003). "The Extinct Rodent Clidomys (Heptaxodontidae) From a Late Quaternary Cave Deposit in Jamaica". Caribbean Journal of Science 39 (1): 34–41. http://academic.uprm.edu/publications/cjs/Vol39a/39_34-41.pdf. 
  3. ^ "Clidomys osborni". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=584887. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 


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