Authority citation: Brace, S., Turvey, S.T., Weksler, M., Hoogland, M.L.P. and Barnes, I. 2023-03-27. Establishing the availability of the mammalian genus name Antillomys and species name Antillomys rayi (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Therya 14(2):293-298.
Authority publication link: https://doi.org/10.12933/therya-23-2281
Original name as described: Antillomys rayi
Nominal names: hypenemus (C. E. Ray, 1962) [unpublished thesis] | rayi Brace, Turvey, Weksler, Hoogland, & I. Barnes, 2015 [unpublished supplement] | rayi Brace, Turvey, Weksler, Hoogland, & I. Barnes, 2023
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Rodentia -- Family: Cricetidae -- Subfamily: Sigmodontinae -- Tribe: Oryzomyini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: UF A.98.2
Type locality: Indian Creek (AD 900-1100 archaeological site), Antigua, Antigua & Barbados.
Past geographic Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Antigua and Barbuda (ATG) | Guadeloupe (GLP)
Species Status: This species went extinct in the last 500 years, it lived in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Not evaluated
Species-specific notes: recently described extinct species and genus; the species was described in a supplemental word file from the original description publication, which makes the species and genus name unavailable for nomenclatural purposes and it needs to be described correctly
Citation: Brace, S., Turvey, S. T., Weksler, M., Hoogland, M. L., & Barnes, I. (2015). Unexpected evolutionary diversity in a recently extinct Caribbean mammal radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1807), 20142371.|Brace, S., Turvey, S.T., Weksler, M., Hoogland, M.L.P. and Barnes, I. 2023-03-27. Establishing the availability of the mammalian genus name Antillomys and species name _Antillomys rayi_ (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Therya 14(2):293-298.
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