HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER HYSTRICOMORPHA
--> INFRAORDER HYSTRICOGNATHI
--> FAMILY Capromyidae
--> SUBFAMILY Capromyinae
--> GENUS Mysateles
SPECIES Mysateles prehensilis
Author: | Poeppig, 1824. | Citation: | Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 4: 11. | Common Name: | Prehensile-tailed Hutia | Type Locality: | Cuba, wooded south coast. | Distribution: | Cuba, mainly west of Camaguey Province. The status of this species in the eastern provinces (old Oriente Prov.) is not clear. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable as M. gundlachi, Lower Risk (lc) as M. prehensilis. Common. | Comments: | Placed in subgenus Mesocapromys by Mohr (1939:54) and Varona (1974), and in the genus and subgenus Mysateles by Kratochvíl et al. (1978:15). This is the largest species of Mysateles. Mysateles gundlachi was described on the basis of the baculum, which is distinctly broad-based unlike that of M. meridionalis. Based on levels of sequence divergence, Woods et al. (2001) considered gundlachi as an insular subspecies of M. prehensilis, which we follow here. Karyotype has 2n=34; FN=54-56 (Milišnokov et al., 1990). |
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