Garrido's hutia

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Garrido's hutia

Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Tribe: Capromyini
Genus: Capromys
Species:
C. garridoi
Binomial name
Capromys garridoi
(Varona, 1970)
Synonyms

Mysateles garridoi

Garrido's hutia (Capromys garridoi) is a critically endangered or possibly extinct species[2] of hutia that is found in the Cuban moist forests Global 200 ecoregion.

Taxonomy[]

It was formerly classified in the genus Mysateles, but phylogenetic analysis supports it belonging to the genus Capromys, of which the only other member is the Desmarest's hutia (C. pilorides).[3] It is not known if the species is truly distinct from C. pilorides; some authors have interpreted it as a misidentified specimen of it, but others consider it a distinct species based on cranial morphometric analysis. The American Society of Mammalogists tentatively recognizes it as a distinct species.[3][4][5]

Conservation[]

Its range is thought to include small islands in the of Canarreos Archipelago south of Cuba's Zapata Peninsula and east of the Isle of Youth. A single animal was collected around 1970 on off of south-central Cuba. In 1989, two additional animals were captured alive in keys near .

References[]

  1. ^ Soy, J. & Silva, G. (2008). "Mysateles garridoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2009.[dead link]
  2. ^ "ITIS - Report: Mysateles garridoi".
  3. ^ a b Turvey, Samuel T; Kennerley, Rosalind J; Nuñez-Miño, Jose M; Young, Richard P (2017-07-29). "The Last Survivors: current status and conservation of the non-volant land mammals of the insular Caribbean". Journal of Mammalogy. 98 (4): 918–936. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyw154. ISSN 0022-2372.
  4. ^ Upham, Nathan S; Borroto-Páez, Rafael (2017-07-29). "Molecular phylogeography of endangered Cuban hutias within the Caribbean radiation of capromyid rodents". Journal of Mammalogy. 98 (4): 950–963. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyx077. ISSN 0022-2372.
  5. ^ "Explore the Database". www.mammaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.

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