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The giant hutias are an Extinct group of large Rodent s known from Fossil and Subfossil material in the West Indies. One species, '' Amblyrhiza Inundata '', is estimated to have weighed 150 kg and been as large as an American Black Bear . This is much larger than Capybara , the largest rodent living today, but still much smaller than '' Phoberomys Pattersoni '', the largest rodent to have ever lived. These animals may have persisted into historic times and were probably used as a food source by aboriginal humans. All giant hutias are in a single family '''Heptaxodontidae''', which contains no living species. TAXONOMY The giant hutias are divided into two subfamilies, four genera, and five species.
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