Mesocapromys sanfelipensis Varona & Garrido, 1970:3
Little Earth hutia, San Felipe hutia, Little ground hutia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1978 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017)
IUCN status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Cayo Juan Garcia (21°59?N, 83°31?W), Archipiélago de los Canorreos, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
A specimen can be seen here: http://www.edgeofexistence.org/mammals/species_info.php?id=104&search=possibly_extinct
http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/html/E25787C2FFF7265DFF1F6CF6A1C5F826
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Varona, L. S. and Arredondo, O. (1979). Nuevos táxones fósiles de Capromyidae (Rodentia: Caviomorpha). Poeyana 195: 1-51.
Other references:
Alvarez, V. B. and Gonzalez, A. C. (1991). The critical condition of hutias in Cuba. Oryx 25: 206-208.
Borroto-Páez, Rafael and Mancina, Carlos A. (2017). Biodiversity and conservation of Cuban mammals: past, present, and invasive species. Journal of Mammalogy 98(4): 964-985. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyx017
Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Mancina, Carlos A., Woods, Charles A. and Kilpatrick, C. William. (2012). Checklist: Updated Checklist of Endemic Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies, pp. 389-415. In: Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History and Wacahoota Press. 482 pp.
Cooke, Siobhán B., Dávalos, Liliana M., Mychajliw, Alexis M. Turvey, Samuel T. and Upham, Nathan S. (2017). Anthropogenic Extinction Dominates Holocene Declines of West Indian Mammals. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 48: 301-327. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022754
Duncan, Clare, Böhm, Monika and Turvey, Samuel T. (2021). Identifying the possibilities and pitfalls of conducting IUCN Red List assessments from remotely sensed habitat information based on insights from poorly known Cuban mammals. Conservation Biology 35(5): 1598-1614. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13715
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Kratochvíl, J., L. Rodriguez, and V. Barus. 1978. Capromyinae (Rodentia) of Cuba. I. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium. Academiae Scientiarum Bohemoslovacae (Brno), n.s., 12(11):1-60.
Lee, T. E., Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Wintle, B. A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology 23(2): 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13421
López, Lazaro W. V. et al. (2018). Notes on Mesocapromys sanfelipensis (Rodentia: Capromyidae) from Cuba. Zootaxa 4410(1): 164-176.
Meier, G. G. (2004). Success and disappointment while searching for hutia. Species 41: 7-8.
Soy, J. and Silva, G. (2008). Mesocapromys sanfelipensis. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 July 2013.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275424446_Las_jutias_perdidas_o_fantasmas
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/7053/mesocapromys-sanfelipensism-little-ground-hutia