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While the Mexican agouti was previously deemed as near threatened by the IUCN in 1996, it is now regarded as a critically endangered species. [9] [32] Currently, there is a continuous decrease in the number of mature individuals within the rodent’s population, driven by continuous habitat loss within their preferred habitat range.
The Spanish term is agutí. In Mexico, the agouti is called the sereque . [ 4 ] In Panama , it is known as the ñeque [ 5 ] and in eastern Ecuador , as the guatusa .
When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it is given first. In biological nomenclature , organisms receive scientific names , which are formally in Latin , but may be drawn from any language and many have incorporated words from indigenous language of the Americas.
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.
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 ...
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language [RHD], 2nd ed. (unabridged). New York: Random House. Siebert, Frank T. (1975). "Resurrecting Virginia Algonquian from the Dead: The Reconstituted and Historical Phonology of Powhatan". In Studies in Southeastern Indian Languages, ed. James M. Crawford, pp. 285–453. Athens: University of ...
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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