Twisted-toothed mouse

Twisted-toothed mouse Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Early Holocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	†Heptaxodontidae
Genus:	†Quemisia Miller, 1929
Species:	†Q. gravis
Binomial name
†Quemisia gravis Miller, 1929

The twisted-toothed mouse (Quemisia gravis), also known as the twisted-toothed giant hutia^[1] is an extinct species of rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae.^[1] It is monotypic within the genus Quemisia.^[1] It was endemic to Hispaniola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

1. ^ ^{a b c} Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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