The Bahamian Hutia or Ingraham's Hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) is a species of rodent

Rodent

Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing....

 in the Capromyidae family.

Geocapromys ingrahami is endemic to the Bahamas

The Bahamas

The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

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Habitat

Its natural habitat

Habitat

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest

Forest

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s, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland

Shrubland

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, and rocky areas. It is a nocturnal species, remaining underground during the day. It is threatened due to land clearance.

Extinctions

Two subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

 became extinct in modern times. The Crooked Island

Crooked Island

There are at least two Crooked Islands:*Crooked Island, Hong Kong, also called "Kat O"*Crooked Island *Crooked Island in Lake Huron...

 Hutia (G. i. irrectus) and the Great Abaco Hutia (G. i. abaconis) were mentioned by early European voyagers, and are thought to have become extinct by 1600. This is thought to be due to land clearance rather than direct hunting.