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Santa Lucia giant rice rat
Megalomys luciae
Megalomys luciae, also known as the Saint Lucia pilorie or Saint Lucia giant rice rat, as well as several variant spellings, is an extinct rodent that lived on the island of Saint Lucia in the eastern Caribbean. It was the size of a small cat, and it had a darker belly than Megalomys desmarestii, a closely related species from Martinique, and slender claws. The last known specimen died in London Zoo in 1852, after three years...
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Description
M. luciae was described as smaller than Megalomys desmarestii, a closely related species from Martinique, by Forsyth Major. The stuffed M. lucaei specimen in the collection of the Natural History Museum had a head–body length of 261 mm (10.3 in). M. luciae had slender claws and brown fur, with the fur of the specimen at the Natural History Museum having pale area under the chin and throat separated from another pale area under the lower thorax by a dark streak.
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