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Saint Lucia giant rice-rat
The Saint Lucia giant rice-rat (Megalomys luciae) is an extinct rodent that lived on the island of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean. It was the size of a small cat and had a darker belly than the Martinique giant rice-rat and had slender claws. It probably became extinct in the latter half of the nineteenth century, with the last record dating from 1881. There is a specimen in the Natural History Museum, London.
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