Garrido long-tailed hatia
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The Garrido long-tailed hatia ( Mysateles garridoi ), also known as the Garrido tree rat , is a barely researched rodent species from the family of the spiny rats (Echimyidae). The type epithet honors the Cuban zoologist Orlando H. Garrido .
features
Dimensions are only known from the holotype, of which only the skull without jaw, the spine, the ribs, the hipbone, the pelvis and the left half of the skin exist. The specimen has a head-body length of 350 mm, a tail length of 215 mm and a weight of 1.2 to 1.3 kg. The skull length is 71.2 mm. According to the first description by Luis Sánchez Varona (1923–1989), compared to the Hutiaconga ( Capromys pilorides ), the animal had a darker coat, blacker soles of the feet and blacker genital skin. The skull morphology is similar to that of the Hutiaconga. The size of the skull and the cerebral shell is in the range between the Hutiaconga and the long-tailed tree rat ( Mysateles prehensilis ).
distribution
The holotype , an adolescent perished animal, was acquired by fishermen in 1967 from Orlando H. Garrido on an unnamed islet (Spanish: Cayo) in the extreme northwest of the island of Cayo Largo del Sur in the Canarreos archipelago off the southwest coast of Cuba. The type locality Cayo Majá mentioned by Varona is a mistake, since no evidence of this species was found during research on the island.
Habitat and way of life
Nothing is known about habitat and way of life.
status
The Garrido long-tailed hatia is classified by the IUCN in the category " critically endangered " . In 1971 Orlando H. Garrido described various types of excrement globules of the Garrido long-tailed hatia. In 2012, similar pebbles of excrement were discovered by Rafael Borroto-Páez on Cayo Largo del Sur, suggesting the continued existence of the Garrido long-tailed hatia. Previously, there was evidence in 1989 when two suspected individuals of this species were caught on two islets. The main threat comes from fishermen who come to the islets and collect the animals in large numbers.
literature
- Jane Thornback, Martin Jenkins: The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea) , 1982, pp. 290-291
- Borroto-Páez, R., Mancina, CA and Larramendi, JA 2011. Mamíferos en Cuba. Spartacus-Säätiö y Sociedad Cubana de Zoologia, Cuba, pp. 112–113 (Spanish)
- Borroto-Páez, R., Charles A. Woods and FE Sergile: Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies. Florida Museum of Natural History And Wacahoota Press, Books of Lasting Value, 2012, pp. 389-415
- Pierre-Henri Fabre, James L. Patton and Yuri Leite: Family Echimyidae (Hutias, South American Spiny-rats and Coypu). In: Don Ellis Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier (Eds.): Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 6: Lagomorphs and Rodents 1 Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2016, ISBN 978-84-941892-3-4 , p. 597
Web links
- Capromys garridoi inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.1. Posted by: Soy, J. & Silva, G., 2015. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Varona, Luis Sánchez: Descripción de una nueva especie de Capromys del sur de Cuba (Rodentia: Caviomorpha). Poeyana Institute de Biologia, Cuba. Series A No. 74, pp. 1-16, 1970