Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig 1824)
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Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig 1824) |
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Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig 1824) View in CoL
[Capromys] prehensilis Poeppig 1824 , J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 4: 11.
Type Locality: Cuba, wooded south coast.
Vernacular Names: Prehensile-tailed Hutia.
Subspecies: :
Subspecies Mysateles prehensilis subsp. prehensilis Poeppig 1824
Subspecies Mysateles prehensilis subsp. gundlachi Chapman 1901
Distribution: Cuba, mainly west of Camaguey Province. The status of this species in the eastern provinces (old Oriente Prov.) is not clear.
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as M. gundlachi , Lower Risk (lc) as M. prehensilis . Common.
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 2n=34; FN=54-56 (Milišnokov et al., 1990).
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