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GENUS Mysateles

Author:Lesson, 1842.
Citation:Nouv. Tabl. Regne Animal Mammifčres: 124.
Type Species:Capromys prehensilis Poeppig, 1824.
Comments:Lesson separated Capromys prehensilis as Mysateles poeppingi; see Varona (1979:4-5). Kratochvíl et al. (1978:15) treated Mysateles as a genus in their new classification. Mysateles was included in Capromys by Woods (1989a:781), Hall (1981:863), and Corbet and Hill (1991:203), however, there is biochemical and morphological evidence to support Mysateles as a valid genus (Borroto, 2003; Camacho et al., 1995). Woods et al. (2001) found that Mysateles was paraphyletic in relationship to Mesocapromys angelcabrerai but was distinct from Capromys.
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Offspring:

SPECIES garridoi

SPECIES meridionalis

SPECIES prehensilis

SUBSPECIES prehensilis

SUBSPECIES gundlachi

Synonyms:

    Brachycapromys Varona and Arredondo, 1979
    Leptocapromys Kratochvíl et al., 1978

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