Capromys pilorides (Say, 1822)

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 : 800

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353083

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7279578

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E11F878E-FFC5-FFCA-FF1E-FB30FB61D6CC

treatment provided by

GgServerImporter

scientific name

Capromys pilorides (Say, 1822)
status

 

Capromys pilorides (Say, 1822) View in CoL . Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 2:333.

TYPE LOCALITY: "South America or one of the West Indian islands."

DISTRIBUTION: Mainland Cuba, Isle of Youth, Archipiélago de las Doce Legunas, Archipiélago de Sabana, and many other islands and cays in the Cuban archipelago.

STATUS: Common (extremely abundant in some areas, including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base).

SYNONYMS: acevedo , doceleguas, gundlachianus, intermedius, pilorides , relictus.

COMMENTS: The first mention of this species name is as Mus pilorides Pallas 1778 , however, Tate (1935:309) noted that it is not associated with this genus. Sometimes placed in the subgenus Capromys ; see Hall (1981:863). This species is very variable in size, coloration, and habits. There are four named subspecies (doceleguas, gundlachianus, pilorides , and relictus; see Varona, 1983a:77), and one new subspecies currently being described from the south of the Isle of Youth (Borroto and Camacho, in litt.). Macrocapromys acevedo described by Arredondo (1958:10) is not distinct at the generic level, and is probably synonymous with pilorides.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Capromyidae

Genus

Capromys

Loc

Capromys pilorides (Say, 1822)

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Capromys pilorides (Say, 1822)

Say 1822: 333
1822
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF