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Geocapromys thoracatus (Swan Island hutia)

Synonyms: Capromys brachyurus thoractus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Little Swan Island hutia (Geocapromys thoracatus) is an extinct species of rodent that lived on the Swan Islands, off north-eastern Honduras in the Caribbean. It was a slow-moving, guinea-pig-like rodent and probably emerged from caves and limestone crevices to forage on bark, small twigs and leaves.
View Wikipedia Record: Geocapromys thoracatus

Endangered Species

Status: Extinct
View IUCN Record: Geocapromys thoracatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.307 lbs (1.50 kg)
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Gestation [3]  4 months
Litter Size [3]  2
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  14 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  15 inches (38 cm)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cisne Marine National Park II   Honduras      

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0