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

Mysateles meridionalis (Varona, 1986) . 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 .