Desmarest’s Cuban hutia

rodent
Also known as: Capromys pilorides

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classification

  • Bahaman hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami).
    In hutia

    …12 inches), to the raccoon-sized Desmarest’s Cuban hutia (Capromys pilorides), with a body 32 to 60 cm long and weight of up to 8.5 kg (19 pounds). The tail ranges from very short and inconspicuous in Brown’s hutia (Geocapromys brownii) to pronounced and prehensile in the long-tailed Cuban hutia Mysateles…

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