Prehensile-tailed hutia
| Prehensile-tailed hutia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Capromyidae |
| Genus: | Mysateles |
| Species: | M. prehensilis |
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Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig, 1824) |
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The prehensile-tailed hutia (Mysateles prehensilis) is a species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. It is an arboreal foliovore. Its karyotype has 2n = 34 and FN = 54-56.
It is an IUCN Red List Near threatened species — endemic to Cuba.
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