Rhagamys is an extinct genus of rodents in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World mice and rats. The genus was established by the Swiss zoologist Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major to accommodate Rhagamys orthodon, which is the only species in the genus. It was endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia, descending from Rhagapodemus, which had colonised the islands around 3.6 million years ago. Its closest living relatives are of the genus Apodemus, which includes the field and wood mice.
Pleistocene, succeeded by Rhagamys orthodon, which ranged from the Middle Pleistocene to Holocene. The molars of Rhagamys are similar to those of the...
mammal fauna, all of which is now extinct, which included a field mouse, (Rhagamys orthodon) a vole (Microtus henseli), a shrew (Asoriculus similis), a mole...
home). Related to the Ryūkyū spiny rats (Tokudaia) and the prehistoric Rhagamys – and far more distantly to Mus and Malacomys – it includes these species:...
rats and mice Tribe Apodemini Genus Apodemus - Old World field mice Genus Rhagamys † Genus Tokudaia - Ryūkyū spiny rats Tribe Arvicanthini Aethomys division...
of all human inhabitants from the island in 1930. Tyrrhenian field rat Rhagamys orthodon Corsica and Sardinia Most recent remains dated to 348 BCE - 283...
fauna which besides Megalenhydris included the Tyrrhenian field rat, (Rhagamys orthodon) the Tyrrhenian vole (Microtus henseli), the Sardinian pika (Prolagus...
One species, R. minor, is considered ancestral to another extinct genus, Rhagamys, which was endemic to Sardinia and Corsica up until the end of the Pleistocene...
predation and competition with introduced mammals. Hensel's field mouse Rhagamys orthodon Introduced black rats and human-induced habitat loss. Tyrrhenian...
mammal fauna which besides M. henseli included Tyrrhenian field rat, (Rhagamys orthodon), the Sardinian pika (Prolagus sardus), a shrew (Asoriculus similis)...
mammal fauna which besides M. lamarmorai included Tyrrhenian field rat, (Rhagamys orthodon) the Tyrrhenian vole (Microtus henseli), the Sardinian pika (Prolagus...
mammal fauna which besides T. tyrrhenica included Tyrrhenian field rat, (Rhagamys orthodon), the Sardinian pika (Prolagus sardus), a shrew (Asoriculus similis)...
Sardinian dhole and Sardinian pika, included the Tyrrhenian field rat, (Rhagamys orthodon) the Tyrrhenian vole (Microtus henseli), a shrew (Asoriculus similis)...
orientalis †Progonomys woelferi Genus †Rhagamys (Late Pleistocene of Sardinia and Corsica) †Hensel's field mouse, Rhagamys orthodon (extinct circa 1000 B.C...
Sciuromorpha Family: Muridae (mice and rats) Subfamily: Murinae Genus †Rhagamys †Tyrrhenian field rat, R. orthodon EX Familly: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae...
henseli), the Sardinian pika (Prolagus sardus), the Tyrrhenian field rat (Rhagamys orthodon) one or two species of shrew belonging to the genus Asoriculus...
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