Megalomys luciae Major 1901

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 955-1189 : 1125

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scientific name	Megalomys luciae Major 1901
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Treatment

Megalomys luciae Major 1901 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7: 206.

Type Locality: West Indes, Lesser Antilles, Santa Lucia.

Vernacular Names: Santa Lucian Pilorie.

Distribution: Known only from Santa Lucia.

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct.

Discussion: Provisionally retained as species by Ray (1962), who suspected that improved samples would demonstrate conspecificity with M. desmarestii .