Mysateles garridoi (Varona, 1970)

Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 771-806 : 802

Mysateles garridoi (Varona, 1970) . Poeyana, ser. A, 74: 2.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba, Archipiélago de los Canarreos, "Cayo Majâ" .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from a single specimen (type locality).

STATUS: IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Placed in the genus Mysateles , subgenus Leptocapromys by Kratochvil et al. (1978:15). However, retained in Capromys by Varona (in litt.). The type locality has been clarified by Silva and Garrido (in press), who identified the correct name for the locality as a yet unnamed small cay adjacent to Cayo Largo in the Archipiélago de los Canarreos. Varona (1970) incorrectly applied the name Cayo Majâ to this islet. It is known that this hutia does not occur on the adjacent Cayo Majâ (three cays to the northwest of the Cayo Largo) based on a 1990 expedition to this region by R. Borroto (pers. comm.). The single known specimen may have been left on the site where it was collected by fishermen, and not be from the area, so it is necessary to search more widely in the region to determine the status of this species (A. Camacho, pers. comm.).