Prehensile-tailed hutia
| Prehensile-tailed hutia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Capromyidae |
| Genus: | Mysateles |
| Species: | M. prehensilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig, 1824) | |
The prehensile-tailed hutia (Mysateles prehensilis) is a species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. It is an arboreal foliovore.[1] Its karyotype has 2n = 34 and FN = 54-56.[2]
It is an IUCN Red List Near threatened species — endemic to Cuba.
References
- 1 2 Soy, J. & Silva, G. (2008). Mysateles prehensilis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1597. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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