Black-tailed Hutia

Black-tailed Hutia
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Capromyidae
Genus:	Mesocapromys
Species:	M. melanurus
Binomial name
Mesocapromys melanurus (Poey, 1865)
Synonyms
arboricolus Kratochvíl, Rodriguez, & Barus, 1978 rufescens Mohr, 1839

The Black-tailed Hutia or Bushy-tailed Hutia (Mysateles melanurus) is a species of rodent in the Capromyidae family that is endemic to lowland moist forests on the island of Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

1. ^ Soy, J. & Silva, G. (2008). Mesocapromys melanurus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.

• Woods, C. A. and C. W. Kilpatrick. 2005. Hystricognathi. pp 1538–1600 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.