MCZ Mammalogy BOM-9864

Mesocapromys nanus (G. M. Allen, 1917)

Holotype of Capromys nana

Date Collected:

1917-03-01/1917-03-31

Central America: Cuba: West Indies: Greater Antilles: Cuba | Sierra de Hato Nuevo

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mamm:BOM-9864 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - dorsal mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - dorsal mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - dorsal mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - dorsal mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - dorsal mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - dorsal mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - dorsal mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - lateral mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - lateral mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Media type: image; Mammalogy BOM-9864 Description: Image of skeleton specimen - lateral mandible view. Detailed image of the mandible of the skeleton specimen.;

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Current Identification
Mesocapromys nanus (G. M. Allen, 1917)
Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Capromyidae
Common Name(s): Dwarf Hutia
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identification
Capromys nana G. M. Allen, 1917
Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Tetrapoda Mammalia Rodentia Capromyidae
Determiner: Glover M. Allenlinked data icon on 1917-03-28
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: ID Date is date of publication

Allen 1917, page 54, Holotype of Capromys nana G. M. Allen, 1917
Media type: text; Allen 1917 Description: An extinct Cuban <i>Capromys</i>;

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Shows Publication: Allen 1917 Description: An extinct Cuban Capromys

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Part Condition Disposition Count
skull (dry) partial right ramus in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: right ramus
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: muscle; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2023-09-28
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2023-08-31   determined by=Nina Black  

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2023-09-28

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  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Cuba
  • Island Group:
  • West Indies: Greater Antilles
  • Island:
  • Cuba
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7005380 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Sierra de Hato Nuevo
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Sierra de Hato Nuevo
  • Georeference:
  • 20.4397220°, -76.331111° (Error radius: 3036m) By: Brendan Haley on 2019-07-08 (Source: GEOLocate batch georeferencing, 2019-07-08)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1917-03-01 / 1917-03-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 3/1917
  • Collectors:
  • Thomas Barbourlinked data icon; Winthrop Sprague Brooks

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Media type: text; Mammalogy BOM-9861; BOM-9862; BOM-9863; BOM-9864; BOM-9865; BOM-9866; BOM-9867; BOM-9868; BOM-9869; BOM-9870; BOM-9871; BOM-9872; BOM-9873; BOM-9874; BOM-9875; BOM-9851; BOM-9852; BOM-9853; BOM-9854; BOM-9855; BOM-9856; BOM-9857; BOM-9858; BOM-9859; BOM-9860 Description: MCZ Mammalogy Bones bones-006001, pg.155;

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Ledger Entry for: 25 cataloged items from MCZ:Mamm:BOM-9861 Canis familiaris to MCZ:Mamm:...

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