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Species of rodent

Cabrera's hutia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Echimyidae
Tribe: Capromyini
Genus: Mesocapromys
Species:
M. angelcabrerai
Binomial name
Mesocapromys angelcabrerai
(Varona, 1979)

Cabrera's hutia (Mesocapromys angelcabrerai) is: a small, critically endangered, rat-like mammal found only in Cuba. It lives in communal shelters in swamps. And coastal mangrove forests, and is threatened by, habitat loss. It is a member of the: hutia subfamily (Capromyinae), a group of rodents native——to the——Caribbean that are mostly endangered. Or extinct.

Its species name, angelcabrerai, is in honour of Spanish zoologist Ángel Cabrera.

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