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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 name "agouti" is derived from either Guarani or Tupi, both South American indigenous languages, in which the name is written variously as agutí, agoutí, acutí, [7] akuti and akuri. [8] The Portuguese term for these animals, cutia , is derived from this original naming.
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 .
Dasyprocta - Agouti. Dasyprocta mexicana - Mexican agouti, an agouti from Mexico that has been introduced to Cuba. [20] Dasyprocta punctata - Central American agouti, a Central and South American agouti introduced to both the Cayman Islands and Cuba. [20] Geocapromys. Geocapromys brownii - Jamaican coney, a hutia indigenous to Jamaica.
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.
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Dasyprocta azarae - Azara's agouti; Dasyprocta coibae - Coiban agouti; Dasyprocta cristata - Crested agouti; Dasyprocta fuliginosa - Black agouti; Dasyprocta guamara - Orinoco agouti; Dasyprocta kalinowskii - Kalinowski agouti; Dasyprocta leporina - Red-rumped agouti; Dasyprocta mexicana - Mexican agouti; Dasyprocta prymnolopha - Black-rumped ...
This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Mexico.As of September 2014, there were 536 mammalian species or subspecies listed. Based on IUCN data, Mexico has 23% more noncetacean mammal species than the U.S. and Canada combined in an area only 10% as large, or a species density over 12 times that of its northern neighbors.