Mysateles meridionalis (Varona, 1986)

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 : 803

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scientific name

Mysateles meridionalis (Varona, 1986)
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Mysateles meridionalis (Varona, 1986) View in CoL . Poeyana, 315:4.

TYPE LOCALITY: North of Caleta Cocodrilos, southwestern Isla de la Juventud (former Isle of Pines) .

DISTRIBUTION: Restricted to lowland forests SW of the central savanna of the Isle of Youth (south of W Cuba).

STATUS: IUCN - Indeterminate; but probably very uncommon.

COMMENTS: Closely related to Mystateles prehensilis and M. gundlachi , but different in the proportion of the tail which is 62 percent of body length in meridionalis , 73 percent in gundlachi , and 79 percent in prehensilis ; see also comments under gundlachi and prehensilis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Capromyidae

Genus

Mysateles

Loc

Mysateles meridionalis (Varona, 1986)

Charles A. Woods 1993
1993
Loc

Mysateles meridionalis (Varona, 1986)

Varona 1986: 4
1986
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