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Hispaniolan edible rat
The
Hispaniolan
edible
rat
is an
extinct species
of
rodent
in the
family
Echimyidae
. It was found in the
Dominican Republic
and
Haiti
. Its
natural habitat
was
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests
.
This
species
is known from a single report from
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdez
, who
documented
an
animal
called the
mohuy
, similar to living
spiny rats
.