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Prehensile-tailed hutia

Prehensile-tailed hutia
Capromys prehensilis (Harvard University).JPG
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.



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