Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2035
Reference for:
Mysateles prehensilis
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Mysateles prehensilis
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Woods, Charles A., and C. William Kilpatrick / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Infraorder Hystricognathi Brandt, 1855
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
1538-1600
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Mysateles prehensilis
Mysateles prehensilis: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Caribbean
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Mysateles prehensilis: Comments
Comment:
Status: IUCN - Vulnerable as M. gundlachi, Lower Risk (lc) as M. prehensilis. Common
Comment:
Comments: Placed in subgenus Mesocapromys by Mohr (1939:54) and Varona (1974), and in the genus and subgenus Mysateles by Kratochvíl et al. (1978:15). This is the largest species of Mysateles. Mysateles gundlachi was described on the basis of the baculum, which is distinctly broad-based unlike that of M. meridionalis. Based on levels of sequence divergence, Woods et al. (2001) considered gundlachi as an insular subspecies of M. prehensilis, which we follow here. Karyotype has 2n=34; FN=54-56 (Milisno...