Puerto Rican hutia
| Puerto Rican hutia | |
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| Fossil mandible | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Echimyidae |
| Genus: | †Isolobodon |
| Species: | †I. portoricensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Isolobodon portoricensis J. A. Allen, 1916
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The Puerto Rican hutia (Isolobodon portoricensis) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. It was found on Hispaniola (today the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and Gonâve Island; it was introduced to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.