What is the technical name for the rodent that lived with Gallotia goliath on the island of Tenerife?
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Gallotia goliath Gallotia goliath (the goliath Tenerife lizard) is an extinct giant lizard species from the island of Tenerife of the Canary Islands, Spain. This reptile lived before the arrival of humans and is believed to have grown to at least 0.9 m long. It was described by the German herpetologist Robert Mertens. Fossils of this lizard have been found in volcanic caves, where they often appear with those of other animals, like the Tenerife giant rat.
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Tenerife giant rat The Tenerife giant rat ("Canariomys bravoi") is an extinct species of rodent endemic to the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, Spain. Many remains have been found during archeological digs. Most remains are from the Pleistocene. Radiocarbon dating has placed some of the finds in the late Pleistocene.
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South African springhare The South African springhare ("Pedetes capensis"), or springhaas in Afrikaans, is not actually a hare, but a rodent. It is one of two living species in the genus "Pedetes", and is native to southern Africa. Formerly, the genus was considered monotypic and the East African springhare ("P. surdaster") was included in "P. capensis". Though the species look alike at a casual glance, scientific study can easily determine which is which.
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Haig's tuco-tuco Haig's tuco-tuco ("Ctenomys haigi"), known regionally as the Patagonian tuco-tuco, is a South American hystricognath rodent. Like other tuco-tucos it is subterranean and thus not often observed, although the "tuc-tuc" call of the males can be heard near burrow sites, especially in early morning. Like most species in the genus "Ctenomys", "C. haigi" are solitary, with one adult per burrow.
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Santa Cruz mouse The Santa Cruz mouse ("Peromyscus sejugis") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found only on two small islands in the southern Gulf of California. Feral cats on Santa Cruz Island are a threat.
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Turner Island woodrat The Turner Island woodrat ("Neotoma albigula varia") is a subspecies of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Astrapotherium Astrapotherium ("Great Lightning Beast") is an extinct genus of South American mammal which vaguely resembled a cross between a small elephant, and a very large tapir. This peculiar-looking animal was unrelated to modern elephants, and was, instead, related to other extinct South American ungulates. The beast lived in the Early to Middle Miocene. Fossil remains of the type species "A. magnus" have been found in the Santa Cruz Formation in Argentina. Other fossils have been found in the Deseado, Sarmiento and Aisol Formations of Argentina, in Colombia (Honda Group), Chile (Cura-Mallín and Río Frías Formations) and Chaguaramas Formation, Venezuela.
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Rossel Island melomys The Rossel Island melomys ("Melomys arcium") is a species of rodent from the family Muridae. It is endemic to Rossel Island in Papua New Guinea, but Flannery (1955) presumed that "it did exist previously on other islands of the group, but has become extinct on all except Rossel." For many years it was seen as a subspecies of the white-bellied mosaic-tailed rat, but is now considered a distinct species. It is listed as data deficient by the IUCN Red List in light of little information on "population status, ecological requirements, and threats". The Rossel Island melomys has not been officially recorded since 1956, but its habitat is still in good condition. The IUCN lists determining population status of the melomys as a "high priority".
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Pacarana The pacarana ("Dinomys branickii") is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native peoples of the region call it the "pacarana" (false paca) because it is superficially similar to the paca, a different rodent which is not in the same family. The pacarana has a chunky body and is large for a rodent, weighing up to 15 kg and measuring up to 79 cm in length, not including the thick, furry tail.
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Lemke's hutia Lemke's hutia ("Rhizoplagiodontia lemkei") is an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. It is monotypic within the genus Rhizoplagiodontia. It was endemic to Haiti. Its natural habitat was subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Coues's climbing mouse Coues's climbing mouse (Rhipidomys couesi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. It is named in honour of the American zoologist Elliott Coues who studied birds and small mammals.
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Flores giant rat The Flores giant rat ("Papagomys armandvillei") is a rodent of the family Muridae that occurs on the island of Flores in Indonesia. It has been recorded in Rutong Protection Forest. The species is found in primary, secondary and disturbed forest over a wide range of elevations. Head and body length is 41 - and tail length is 33 - , making it at least twice the size of an average brown rat ("Rattus norvegicus") with a 25 cm long body and 15 cm long tail. The only extant species in the genus "Papagomys", the rat was given its Latin name after Dutch Jesuit missionary Kornelis J. F. le Cocq d'Armandville who was stationed in the Dutch East Indies and later in New Guinea.
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Fresno kangaroo rat The Fresno kangaroo rat or San Joaquin kangaroo rat ("Dipodomys nitratoides") is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to areas within and near the San Joaquin Valley of California in the United States. Habitat destruction due to agricultural development and urbanization has put this species at risk, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as "vulnerable".
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Iberostomata Iberostomata fombuenensis is an extinct species of bryozoans which existed in what is now Spain during the Katian period. It was named by Andrea Jiménez-Sánchez, Robert L. Anstey and Beatriz Azanka in 2010, and is the only species in the genus Iberostomata.
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Greater guinea pig The greater guinea pig, "Cavia magna", is a species of rodent found in the coastal strip of Brazil and Uruguay, where it lives in moist grassland and marshes.
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Bunker's woodrat Bunker's woodrat ("Neotoma bunkeri") is an extinct species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Only five specimens are known; these were collected in 1932 by W.H. Burt and are housed at a museum at UCLA. "Neotoma bunkeri" was only described from Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico. It probably died out as a result of depletion of food resources and predation by feral cats.
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Mussaurus Mussaurus (meaning "mouse lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in southern Argentina during the Late Triassic, about 215 million years ago. It receives its name from the small size of the skeletons of juvenile and infant individuals, which were once the only known specimens of the genus. However, since "Mussaurus" is now known from adult specimens, the name is something of a misnomer; adults possibly reached 3 m (10 ft) in length, and weighed 70 kg . "Mussaurus" possesses anatomical features suggesting a close, possibly transitional evolutionary relationship with true sauropods.
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Nuralagus Nuralagus rex, occasionally called the Minorcan giant lagomorph, is an extinct rabbit that lived in the island of Menorca from the Messinian until around the middle of the Pliocene, when it became extinct ( 3 ) when Majorca and Menorca were united as one island, letting the goat-like ungulate "Myotragus balearicus" colonize "Nuralagus"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s habitat.
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Transandinomys Transandinomys is a genus of rodents in the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae. It includes two species—"T. bolivaris" and "T. talamancae"—found in forests from Honduras in Central America south and east to southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Venezuela in northern South America. Until 2006, its members were included in the genus "Oryzomys", but phylogenetic analysis showed that they are not closely related to the type species of that genus, and they have therefore been placed in a new genus. They may be most closely related to genera like "Hylaeamys" and "Euryoryzomys", which contain very similar species. Both species of "Transandinomys" have had eventful taxonomic histories.
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Monito del monte The monito del monte (Spanish for "little monkey of the mount") or colocolo opossum, "Dromiciops gliroides", also called "chumaihuén" in Mapudungun, is a diminutive marsupial native only to southwestern South America (Argentina and Chile). It is the only extant species in the ancient order Microbiotheria, and the sole New World representative of the superorder Australidelphia (all other New World marsupials are members of the paraphyletic "Ameridelphia"). The species is nocturnal and arboreal, and lives in thickets of South American mountain bamboo in the Valdivian temperate rain forests of the southern Andes, aided by its partially prehensile tail. It eats primarily insects and other small invertebrates, supplemented with fruit.
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Hylaeamys yunganus Hylaeamys yunganus, also known as the Amazonian oryzomys or Yungas rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus "Hylaeamys" of family Cricetidae. It is found in lowland tropical rainforest throughout Amazonia, in northeastern Bolivia, eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil. A closely related species, "Hylaeamys tatei", occurs only in a small area in eastern Ecuador. Both were previously placed in "Oryzomys".
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Gounda mouse The Gounda mouse ("Mus goundae") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.