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I.—A Giant Sub-Fossil Rat from Madagascar, Myoryctes rapeto,1 gen. et sp. nov.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. I. Forsyth Major
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Amongst the vertebrate remains which I found in the marshes of Sirabé (Central Madagascar), a large Rodent is represented by two right ossa innominata, one of which (B.M. M 7085) is fairly complete, only the free portion of the pars dorsalis of the ischium being broken off.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 1908 , pp. 97 - 98
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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Footnotes

1

rapeto is the Malagasy word for ‘giant, uncanny.’

References

2 Cf. in Tullberg, , “Über das System der Nagethiere” (1899)Google Scholar, the figure of the innominatum of Nesomys (pl. 32, figs. 11, 12), and those of the genera of fossorial Rodents, viz., Spalax (figs. 13, 14), Ellobius (figs. 15, 16), Arvicola amphibius (figs. 17, 18), Hesperomys (figs. 19, 20), Geomys (figs. 27, 28), Georychus (pl. 31, figs. 1, 2), Ctenomys (figs. 19, 20), Haplodon (pl. 33, fig. 8), Perodipus (figs. 23, 24).