Plagiodontia is a genus of rodent in the subfamily Capromyinae (hutias). All known species are endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (in the present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti).
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Plagiodontia is a genus of rodent in the subfamily Capromyinae (hutias). All known species are endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (in the present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti).
The genus name Plagiodontia means "oblique tooth", and derives from the two ancient greek words (), meaning "placed sideways", and , (), meaning "tooth".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).