Dasyprocta mexicana

de Saussure, 1860

Mexican Agouti

Also as Mexican Black Agouti.
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Location:Mexico, CHP, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Zoológico Miguél Álvarez del ToroDate taken:5 April 2024Description:Also as Mexican Black Agouti.

Distribution :

C Veracruz and E Oaxaca (Mexico); introduced into W and E Cuba.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 7105

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Hystricomorpha
Infraorder: Hystricognathi
Parvorder: Caviomorpha
Superfamily: Cavioidea
Family: Dasyproctidae
Genus: Dasyprocta

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Saussure, H.L.F. de. 1860-02. Note sur quelques Mammifères du Mexique. Deuxième article. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée (2)12(2):53-57.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2264343

Original name as described

Dasyprocta mexicana

Other common names

Mexican Black Agouti

Type material

MHNG 483.90, MHNG 507.36, MHNG 563.59

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Mexico, probably Veracruz (= "hot zone of Mexico").

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001223

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Dasyprocta mexicana

de Saussure, 1860

Family

Dasyproctidae

Root name

mexicana

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MHNG 483.90, MHNG 507.36, MHNG 563.59

Type kind

syntypes

Original type locality

Ce charmant petit animal habite la zone chaude du Mexique

Type locality

Mexico.

Authority page

53

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2264343

Authority publication

Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée

Name usages

Murray (1866:351, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580347) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
Fitzinger (1867:158, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6476844) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34989)
True (1885:600, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306394) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)
Trouessart (1897:633, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53435177) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59285)
Trouessart (1904:522, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423403) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
Miller (1912:288, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7828393) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/11760)
Hall & Kelson (1959:790) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72300)
Corbet & Hill (1980:191) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:576, 577) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:202) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Woods (1993:782) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69028)
Woods & Kilpatrick (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8545)
Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier (2016:457) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #6285) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #6285) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001223) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6285/22198164) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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