Megalomys Georginae
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''Megalomys georginae'' is an extinct species of
rice rat Oryzomyini is a tribe of rodents in the subfamily Sigmodontinae of the family Cricetidae. It includes about 120 species in about thirty genera,Weksler et al., 2006, table 1 distributed from the eastern United States to the southernmost parts of S ...
from Barbados, that belongs in the genus ''
Megalomys ''Megalomys'' is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae, part of the tribe Oryzomyini. The genus contains five large rodents from various Caribbean islands, of which two are known to have survived into modern times, but all of which are now ex ...
''. The species originated from the Late Pleistoscene era.


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{{Oryzomyini nav georginae Taxa named by Marcelo Weksler