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 |
Binomial name | |
Mysateles prehensilis (Poeppig, 1824) |
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.