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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 Mysateles . It climbs and lives in trees where it eats only leaves, and it is threatened by habitat loss . [ 1 ]
Desmarest's hutia (Capromys pilorides), a member of a rodent family known only from the Caribbean.. The Caribbean region is home to a diverse and largely endemic rodent fauna. . This includes the endemic family Capromyidae (hutias), which are largely limited to the Greater Antilles, and two other groups of endemic hystricognaths, the heteropsomyines and giant hutias, including the extinct bear ...
Only Desmarest's hutia and the prehensile-tailed hutia remain common and widespread; all other extant species are considered threatened by the IUCN. The extinct giant hutias of the family Heptaxodontidae also inhabited the Caribbean, but are not thought to be closely related, with the giant hutias belonging in the superfamily Chinchilloidea .
Prehensile-tailed hutia (Mysateles prehensilis) Geocapromys: Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii) Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) Plagiodontini: Plagiodontia:
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Family: Balaenidae. Genus: Eubalaena. North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena ...
Within Capromyidae, the closest relative of Mesocapromys is the genus Mysateles.Both genera are the sister group to Capromys, and then Geocapromys is a more distant genus. . In turn, these four genera belong to the tribe Capromyini, and are the sister group to Plagiodont
The prehensile-tail of a mantled howler monkey. A prehensile tail is the tail of an animal that has adapted to grasp or hold objects. [1] Fully prehensile tails can be used to hold and manipulate objects, and in particular to aid arboreal creatures in finding and eating food in the trees.
Armored rat, Hoplomys gymnurus White-tailed olalla rat, Olallamys albicauda Red-crested tree rat, Santamartamys rufodorsalis [1] Echimyidae is the family [2] of neotropical spiny rats and their fossil relatives. [3] This is the most species-rich family of hystricognath rodents. [4]