"Ekbletomys"
| "Ekbletomys" Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene | |
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| Side view of the holotype skull | |
| Scientific classification (unresolved) | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Oryzomys |
| Subgenus: | †"Ekbletomys" Ray, 1962 (unavailable name) |
| Species: | †"O. hypenemus" |
| Binomial name | |
| †"Oryzomys hypenemus" (Ray, 1962) (unavailable name) | |
| Location of Antigua and Barbuda, where "Oryzomys hypenemus" was endemic | |
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"Oryzomys hypenemus" is an extinct species of rodent from the islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Lesser Antilles. It was described as the only species of the subgenus "Ekbletomys" of genus Oryzomys in a 1962 Ph.D. thesis, but because that name was not available under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature the species remains formally unnamed to this day. Though considered extinct, examinations of Rattus indicate that it survived until before 1500 BCE on Antigua.