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SPECIES Megalomys luciae

Author:Major, 1901.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 7: 206.
Common Name:Santa Lucian Pilorie
Type Locality:West Indes, Lesser Antilles, Santa Lucia.
Distribution:Known only from Santa Lucia.
Status:IUCN – Extinct.
Comments:Provisionally retained as species by Ray (1962), who suspected that improved samples would demonstrate conspecificity with M. desmarestii.
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