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Last Updated:
03-Oct-2000 |
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Isolobodon |
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A genus of extinct capromyid
rodents ("hutias") known from Hispaniola, Mona Island, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands. Believed native to Hispaniola and transported to Puerto Rico by
Amerindians as a food item. Isolobodon is a common element in Puerto Rican
Amerindian middens, but is not yet known from non-cultural sites on that island.
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