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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Capromyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Capromyinae
--> GENUS Capromys
SPECIES Capromys gundlachianus
| Author: | Varona, 1983. | | Citation: | Carib. J. Sci., 19(3-4): 77. | | Common Name: | Archipiélago de Sabana Hutia | | Type Locality: | Small cayo west of Cayo Bahía de Cádiz, Bahía de Santa Clara, Archipiélago de Sabana, Cuba. | | Distribution: | In the region of Cayo Bahía de Cádiz in the Archipiélago de Sabana, as well as Cayo Fragoso, Cayo Santa María, Cayo Guillermo, and Cayo Patabán. Extirpated on Cayo las Brujas. On Cayo Fragoso it is sympatric with Mesocapromys auritus north of Caibarién. | | Status: | Widespread. | | Comments: | Originally described as a subspecies of C. pilorides but tentatively elevated to species status because of sequence divergence of a specimen from Cayo Ballenato del Medio (Woods et al., 2001), however, this locality is outside the published range of gundlachianus. |
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