Noronhomys

The Fernando de Noronha - Rat ( Noronhomys vespuccii ) is an extinct rodent species from the group of the New world.

These rodents were rat-like animals that lived only on the island of Fernando de Noronha off the east coast of Brazil. In the 1970s fossil finds were discovered and first described as Noronhomys vespuccii 1999. Amerigo Vespucci, who landed on the island in 1503, wrote about very large " rat " that occurred there - the actual rats but were introduced only by the Europeans to America and also on this island. Maybe it involves this Article

About the timing and causes of extinction of the Fernando de Noronha - Rat nothing definite is known.

Morphologically very similar to the living on the mainland marsh rats ( Holochilus ), it is classified as their close relative.