| Hyperplagiodontia Temporal range: Early Holocene | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Extinct | |
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 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hyperplagiodontia araeum (Ray, 1964) | |
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Hyperplagiodontia, rarely called the wide-toothed hutia, is an extinct genus of hutia which contains a single species, Hyperplagiodontia araeum. 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. Fossils of H. araeum have only been found on Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
References
- 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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Plagiodontia araeum | |
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