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Mesocapromys sanfelipensis
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Mesocapromys sanfelipensis (Varona and Garrido, 1970). Poeyana, ser. A, 75:3.
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba, Pinar del Rio Prov., Archipiélago de los Canarreos, Cayo Juan Garcia (21°59'N, 83º31'W).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from four specimens collected at the type locality.
STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered. The species is now considered to be extinct because a fire destroyed much of its habitat on Cayo Juan Garcia (Frias et al., 1988).
COMMENTS: Placed in subgenus Mesocapromys by Varona (1974), and in genus Mesocapromys, subgenus Paracapromys by Kratochvil et al. (1978:15). The habitat of this species is uncertain, but all known specimens were captured in grasslands (Salicornia perennis = "yerba de vidrio") rather than mangroves.
Notes
Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 802, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1D26FFF6FFD8FFD7FFE1FC69FFB0DF05 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Varona and Garrido
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Capromyidae
- Genus
- Mesocapromys
- Species
- sanfelipensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesocapromys sanfelipensis (and, 1970) sec. Woods, 1993
References
- Frias, A. I., V. Berovides, and C. Fernandez. 1988. Current status of jutiita, Capromys sanfelipensis. Donana, Acta Vertebrata, 15 (2): 252 - 254.
- Varona, L. S. 1974. Catalogo de los mamiferos vivientes y extinguidos de las Antillas. Instituto de Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (Havana), 139 pp.
- Kratochvil, J., L. Rodriguez, and V. Barus. 1978. Capromyinae (Rodentia) of Cuba. I. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium. Academiae Scientiarum Bohemoslovacae (Brno), n. s., 12 (11): 1 - 60.