{{Short description|Extinct species of rodent}} {{speciesbox | fossil_range = Early Holocene | display_parents = 3 | genus = Hyperplagiodontia | parent_authority = Rimoli, 1977 | species = araeum | authority = (Ray, 1964) | synonyms = *''Plagiodontia araeum'' *''Hyperplagiodontia stenocoronalis'' <small>(Rímoli, 1976 [1977])</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite book |isbn=978-0965386470|title=Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions |last1=Borroto-Páez |first1=Rafael |last2=Woods |first2=Charles Arthur |last3=Sergile |first3=Florence Etienne |year=2012 |chapter=Updated checklist of endemic terrestrial mammals of the West Indies |publisher=Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273831338}}</ref> }}
'''''Hyperplagiodontia''''', rarely called the '''wide-toothed hutia''', is an extinct genus of hutia which contains a single species, '''''Hyperplagiodontia araeum'''''.<ref name="Catalogue of Life">{{cite web|title=Catalogue of Life|url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/e892584bf10f5c28b44ccbb752b78ce4}}</ref> The species was originally described as a member of the genus ''Plagiodontia'' along with the extant Hispaniolan hutia (''P. aedium''), but after morphometric analysis in 2012, was moved to its own genus, ''Hyperplagiodontia''.<ref>Hansford, J., Nuñez-Miño, J. M., Young, R. P., Brace, S., Brocca, J. L., & Turvey, S. T. (2012). Taxonomy-testing and the ‘Goldilocks Hypothesis': morphometric analysis of species diversity in living and extinct Hispaniolan hutias. Systematics and Biodiversity, 10(4), 491-507.|Fabre, P.-H., Upham, N. S., Emmons, L. H., Justy, F., Leite, Y. L. R., Loss, A. C., Orlando, L., Tilak, M.-K., Patterson, B. D., and Douzery, E. J. P. (2017). Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (3): 613–633.</ref><ref>{{BioRef|asm|id=1001390|title=''Hyperplagiodontia araeum'' |version=1.5 |access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref> Fossils of ''H. araeum'' have only been found on Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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Category:Hutias Category:Fossil taxa described in 1964 Category:Mammals of the Dominican Republic Category:Mammals of Hispaniola Category:Rodent extinctions since 1500 Category:Extinct animals of the Dominican Republic Category:Extinct mammals of Haiti {{Echimyidae-stub}} {{Paleo-rodent-stub}}