Mysateles Lesson, 1842

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 : 802

Mysateles Lesson, 1842 . Nouv. Tabi. Regne Animal, Mammifères, p, 124.

TYPE SPECIES: Capromys prehensilis Poeppig, 1824 .

SYNONYMS: Brachycapromys, Leptocapromys .

COMMENTS: Lesson separated Capromys prehensilis as Mysateles poeppingi ; see Varona (1979:4-5). Kratochvil et al. (1978: 15) treated Mysateles as a genus in their new classification. Mysateles was included in Capromys by Woods (1989a:781), Hall (1981:863), and Corbet and Hill (1991:203). Cuban systematists universally accept Mysateles as a valid genus, and there is biochemical and morphological evidence to support this (A. Camacho, pers. comm.). Mysateles is recognized here as a distinct genus until a review of all Capromyidae is completed to establish how much intraisland variation is required for recognition of taxa at the generic level.