Mysateles Lesson 1842

Mysateles Lesson 1842, Nouv. Tabl. Regn. Anim. Mammiferes: 124.

Type Species: Capromys prehensilis Poeppig 1824

Synonyms: Brachycapromys Varona and Arredondo 1979; Leptocapromys Kratochvíl et al. 1978 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Mysateles garridoi Varona 1970

Species Mysateles meridionalis Varona 1986

Species Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig 1824)

Subspecies Mysateles prehensilis subsp. prehensilis Poeppig 1824

Subspecies Mysateles prehensilis subsp. gundlachi Chapman 1901

Discussion: 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 .