San Felipe Hutia
Mesocapromys sanfelipensis (Varona & Garrido, 1970)
Also calledHutia-de-San-Felipe (por) · Jutiíta de la tierra (spa) · Jutía de la tierra (spa) · Kleine Aardhutia (nld) · hutia malá (ces) · juangarcianhutia (fin) · jutia de la tierra (spa) · skrytohutia krótkoucha (pol) · サンフェリペフチア (jpn)
First described in: Poeyana, ser. A vol.75 p.3
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: U. S. ESA – Endangered as Capromys sanfelipensis; IUCN – Critically Endangered. Fire destroyed much of its habitat on Cayo Juan Garcia (Frias et al., 1988) and thus may now be extinct.
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
discussion
Discussion: Placed in subgenus Mesocapromys by Varona (1974), and in genus Mesocapromys, subgenus Paracapromys by Kratochvíl et al. (1978: 15). The habitat of this species is uncertain, but all known specimens were captured in grasslands (Salicornia perennis = " yerba de vidrio ") rather than mangroves.
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
distribution
Distribution: Known only from four specimens collected at the type locality.
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Cuba, Pinar del Rio Prov., Archipiélago de los Canarreos, Cayo Juan Garcia (21 o 59 ’ N, 83 o 31 ’ W).
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Mesocapromys sanfelipensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437644.