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Prehensile-tailed Hutia
Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig, 1824)
Also calledHutia (fra) · Hutia-de-cauda-preênsil (por) · Hutiacarabali (nld) · Jutía Carabalí (spa) · Langschwanzhutia (deu) · camagueynhutia (fin) · kubohutia rudawa (pol) · オマキフチア (jpn)
First described in: Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia vol.4 p.11
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Mysateles prehensilis subsp. prehensilis Poeppig 1824 Subspecies Mysateles prehensilis subsp. gundlachi Chapman 1901
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
conservation
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as M. gundlachi, Lower Risk (lc) as M. prehensilis. Common.
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
discussion
Discussion: 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 2 n = 34; FN = 54 - 56 (Milišnokov et al., 1990).
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
distribution
Distribution: Cuba, mainly west of Camaguey Province. The status of this species in the eastern provinces (old Oriente Prov.) is not clear.
Order Rodentia - Family Capromyidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437664.