Mysateles

Mysateles is a genus of rodent in the family Capromyidae. The genus is restricted to Cuba.

Mysateles
Black-tailed hutia, (Mysateles melanurus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Capromyidae
Subfamily: Capromyinae
Tribe: Capromyini
Genus: Mysateles
Lesson, 1842
Species

Mysateles garridoi
Mysateles gundlachi
Mysateles melanurus
Mysateles meridionalis
Mysateles prehensilis

Systematics

The genus name Mysateles derives from the two ancient greek words μῦς (mûs), meaning "mouse, rat", and ἀτέλεια (atéleia), meaning "incomplete, imperfect".

Mysateles contains the four following species:[1]

  • Garrido's hutia (Mysateles garridoi)
  • Isla De La Juventud tree hutia (Mysateles meridionalis)
  • Chapman's prehensile-tailed hutia (Mysateles gundlachi), also considered as a subspecies: M. prehensilis gundlachi
  • Prehensile-tailed hutia (Mysateles prehensilis), also considered as a subspecies: M. prehensilis prehensilis

Phylogeny

Within Capromyidae, the closest relative of Mysateles is the genus Mesocapromys. Both genera are the sister group to Capromys, and then Geocapromys is a more distant genus. In turn, these four genera belong to the tribe Capromyini, and are the sister group to Plagiodontia.

Genus-level cladogram of the Capromyidae
with their relationship to Carterodon and Euryzygomatomyinae.
root  
Euryzygomatomyinae
         

  Trinomys (Atlantic spiny rats)

 
 
         

  Euryzygomatomys (guiaras)

 
 

  Clyomys

 
 
 
 
 

  Carterodon (Owl's spiny rat)

 
Capromyidae
  Plagiodontini  

  Plagiodontia

 
  Capromyini  
 

  Geocapromys

 
         
         
         

  Mesocapromys

 
 

  Mysateles

 
 
 

  Capromys (Desmarest's hutia)

 
 
 
 
 
 
The cladogram has been reconstructed from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA characters.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
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References
  1. Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Genus Mysateles". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1538–1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. Galewski, Thomas; Mauffrey, Jean-François; Leite, Yuri L. R.; Patton, James L.; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2005). "Ecomorphological diversification among South American spiny rats (Rodentia; Echimyidae): a phylogenetic and chronological approach". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (3): 601–615. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.015. PMID 15683932.
  3. Upham, Nathan S.; Patterson, Bruce D. (2012). "Diversification and biogeography of the Neotropical caviomorph lineage Octodontoidea (Rodentia: Hystricognathi)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63 (2): 417–429. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.020. PMID 22327013.
  4. Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Galewski, Thomas; Tilak, Marie-ka; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2013-03-01). "Diversification of South American spiny rats (Echimyidae): a multigene phylogenetic approach". Zoologica Scripta. 42 (2): 117–134. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00572.x. ISSN 1463-6409.
  5. Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Vilstrup, Julia T.; Raghavan, Maanasa; Der Sarkissian, Clio; Willerslev, Eske; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.; Orlando, Ludovic (2014-07-01). "Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics". Biology Letters. 10 (7): 20140266. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0266. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 4126619. PMID 25115033.
  6. Upham, Nathan S.; Patterson, Bruce D. (2015). "Evolution of Caviomorph rodents: a complete phylogeny and timetree for living genera". In Vassallo, Aldo Ivan; Antenucci, Daniel (eds.). Biology of caviomorph rodents: diversity and evolution. Buenos Aires: SAREM Series A, Mammalogical Research — Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos. pp. 63–120.
  7. Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Upham, Nathan S.; Emmons, Louise H.; Justy, Fabienne; Leite, Yuri L. R.; Loss, Ana Carolina; Orlando, Ludovic; Tilak, Marie-Ka; Patterson, Bruce D.; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P. (2017-03-01). "Mitogenomic Phylogeny, Diversification, and Biogeography of South American Spiny Rats". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (3): 613–633. doi:10.1093/molbev/msw261. ISSN 0737-4038. PMID 28025278.


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