Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Capromyidae > Mesocapromys > Mesocapromys melanurus

Mesocapromys melanurus (Black-tailed Hutia)

Synonyms: Capromys melanurus; Mesocapromys rufescens; Mysateles arboricolus; Mysateles melanurus

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-tailed hutia or bushy-tailed hutia (Mysateles melanurus) is a species of rodent in the family Capromyidae that is endemic to lowland moist forests on the island of Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Mesocapromys melanurus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Mesocapromys melanurus

Attributes

Forages - Ground [1]  100 %
Gestation [2]  6 months 22 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1
Snout to Vent Length [2]  20 inches (50 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cuban cactus scrub Cuba Neotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Cuban dry forests Cuba Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Cuban moist forests Cuba Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cuban pine forests Cuba Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests  
Cuban wetlands Cuba Neotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cuchillas del Toa UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve 514733 Guantánamo, Cuba  
Pico Mogote Ecological Reserve II 3698 Cuba  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0