Geocapromys is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 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....

, comprising two extant species of hutia

Hutia

Hutias are moderately large cavy-like rodents of the family Capromyidae that inhabit the Caribbean Islands. They range in size from , and can weigh up to . Twenty species of hutia have been identified, and half may be extinct. They resemble the nutria in some respects...

. The Bahamian Hutia

Bahamian Hutia

The Bahamian Hutia or Ingraham's Hutia is a species of rodent in the Capromyidae family.Geocapromys ingrahami is endemic to the Bahamas.-Habitat:...

 or Ingraham's Hutia (G. ingrahami) is native to the Bahamas, while the Jamaican Hutia (G. brownii), which is also known as the Jamaican Coney or Brown's Hutia, is endemic to Jamaica.

The Little Swan Island Hutia

Little Swan Island hutia

The Little Swan Island Hutia is an extinct species of rodent that lived on the Swan Islands, off north-eastern Honduras in the Caribbean...

 (G. thoracatus) was a third species which was found only on Little Swan Island, off north-eastern Honduras

Honduras

Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

. It became extinct in 1955, wiped out by storms and introduced predators. Some scientists consider it a subspecies of G. brownii.

G. columbianus, G. megas, and G. pleistocenicus are species known only from fossil remains.