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    The prehensile-tailed hutia (Mysateles prehensilis) is a small, furry, rat-like mammal found only in forests on Cuba. It is the only member of the genus...
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    Twenty species of hutia have been identified, but at least half are extinct. Only Desmarest's hutia and the prehensile-tailed hutia remain common and...
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    Desmarest's hutia or the Cuban hutia (Capromys pilorides) is a stout, furry, rat-like mammal found only on Cuba and nearby islands. Growing to about 60 cm...
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    The Bahamian hutia or Ingraham's hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) is a small, furry, rat-like mammal found only in the Bahamas. About the size of a rabbit...
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  • eyes and short rounded ears. The average tail and body length of this hutia is unknown. Some hutias have prehensile tails, meaning they are able to use them...
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  • Garrido's hutia (Capromys garridoi) is a small, critically endangered, rat-like mammal found in coastal mangrove forests on Cuba and nearby islands. It...
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  • The eared hutia or large-eared hutia (Mesocapromys auritus) is a small, endangered, rat-like mammal found only on the Caribbean island of Cayo Fragoso...
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    The black-tailed hutia (Mesocapromys melanurus), also known as the bushy-tailed hutia, is a small, furry, rat-like mammal found only in Cuba. It lives...
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    Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), also known as the Jamaican hutia or Brown's hutia, is a small, endangered, rat-like mammal found only on the island...
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    (1 July 2014). "Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics". Biology Letters. 10 (7): 20140266...
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  • Thumbnail for Cabrera's hutia
    Cabrera's hutia (Mesocapromys angelcabrerai) is a small, critically endangered, rat-like mammal found only in Cuba. It lives in communal shelters in swamps...
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  • phylogenetic analysis indicates that it is a subspecies of the prehensile-tailed hutia (M. prehensilis). Soy, J.; Borroto, R. & Silva, G. (2008). "Mysateles...
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    The Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) is a small, threatened, rat-like mammal endemic to forests on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (split between...
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    The San Felipe hutia (Mesocapromys sanfelipensis), also known as the little earth hutia, is small, critically endangered, rat-like mammal found on the...
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    Bahama mockingbird Mysateles prehensilis gundlachi - subspecies of prehensile-tailed hutia in Cuba Nephronaias gundlachii – a land snail Neolema gundlachiana...
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    America; three members of the family also range into Central America, and the hutias are found in the West Indies in the Caribbean. Species of the extinct subfamily...
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    - San Felipe hutia (possibly extinct) Genus Mysateles Mysateles prehensilis - prehensile-tailed hutia M. p. gundlachi - Gundlach's hutia M. p. meridionalis...
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    (2014-07-01). "Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics". Biology Letters. 10 (7): 20140266...
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  • Lemke's hutia (Rhizoplagiodontia lemkei) is an extinct species of rodent in the subfamily Capromyinae. It is monotypic within the genus Rhizoplagiodontia...
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    Geocapromys (category Hutias)
    Geocapromys is a genus of rodent belonging to the hutia subfamily and are currently only found on the Bahamas and Jamaica. However, they formerly ranged...
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  • possibly EX Gundlach's hutia, M. gundlachi VU Black-tailed hutia, M. melanurus VU Southern hutia, M. meridionalis CR Prehensile-tailed hutia, M. prehensilis...
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  • CR San Felipe hutia, Mesocapromys sanfelipensis CR Prehensile-tailed hutia, Mysateles prehensilis NT and: Isla De La Juventud tree hutia, Mysateles prehensilis...
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    Pierre-Henri; Patton, James L.; Leite, Yuri L. R. (2016). "Family Echimyidae (hutias, South American spiny-rats and coypu)". In Wilson, Don E.; Lacher, Thomas...
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    Mesocapromys (category Hutias)
    species: Cabrera's hutia (Mesocapromys angelcabrerai) Eared hutia (Mesocapromys auritus) Black-tailed hutia (Mesocapromys melanurus) Dwarf hutia (Mesocapromys...
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  • The Plain brush-tailed rat (Isothrix pagurus) is a spiny rat species found in Brazil. Bonvicino, C.R. (2016). "Isothrix pagurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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  • agouti Patagonian mara Ansell's mole-rat Shipton's mountain cavy Prehensile-tailed hutia Moon-toothed degu Pacific spiny rat Elias' Atlantic spiny rat Plains...
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    (2014-07-01). "Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics". Biology Letters. 10 (7): 20140266...
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  • The Rio Negro brush-tailed rat or dark brush-tailed tree rat (Isothrix negrensis), is a spiny rat species found in Brazil. Patton, J. (2016). "Isothrix...
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  • Thumbnail for List of rodents of the Caribbean
    extinct hutia. Mysateles prehensilis - Prehensile-tailed hutia, a hutia from western mainland Cuba. M. p. meridionalis - Isla De La Juventud tree hutia, a...
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  • The bare-tailed armored tree-rat (Pattonomys occasius) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in lowland tropical rainforest...
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