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The Mexican agouti, (Dasyprocta mexicana), also known as the Mexican black agouti, is a species of rodent in the genus Dasyprocta. This species was first discovered in 1860 in Veracruz , Mexico and described by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure .
The agouti (/ ə ˈ ɡ uː t iː / ⓘ, ə-GOO-tee) or common agouti is many of several rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta. They are native to Central America , northern and central South America , and the southern Lesser Antilles .
Dasyprocta leporina, an introduced northern South American agouti. The subspecies on Grenada is D. l. albida. [44] An unidentified agouti has been recorded from archeological deposits on Carriacou. [67] Hydrochoerus gaylordi, an endemic capybara known from a few teeth of late Pliocene age. The same fauna also contained some sloth remains. [68]
Dasyproctidae is a family of large South American rodents, comprising the agoutis and acouchis. [1] Their fur is a reddish or dark colour above, with a paler underside. They are herbivorous, often feeding on ripe fruit that falls from trees.
The Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) is a species of agouti from the family Dasyproctidae. [2] The main portion of its range is from Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula (southern Mexico ), through Central America , to northwestern Ecuador , Colombia and far western Venezuela .
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Mexican agouti; Mexican deer mouse; Mexican fox squirrel; Mexican gray squirrel; Mexican ground squirrel; Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine; Mexican pygmy mouse; Mexican spiny pocket mouse; Mexican vole; Mexican woodrat; Montane cotton rat; Muskrat