Green acouchi

Green acouchi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dasyproctidae
Genus: Myoprocta
Species:
M. pratti
Binomial name
Myoprocta pratti
Pocock, 1913[2]

The green acouchi (Myoprocta pratti) is a species of rodent in the acouchi genus, part of the family Dasyproctidae. It is found in western Amazonia, west of the Rios Negro and Madeira, in northwestern Brazil, northeastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, and southern Venezuela. There is substantial variation within this range, and the Green Acouchi, as currently recognized, may contain more than one species. Because the application of the scientific name acouchy, currently in use for the Red Acouchi, has historically been disputed, the name Myoprocta acouchy has sometimes been used for this species instead of Myoprocta pratti.[3] The species is named for Antwerp Edgar Pratt who was a British naturalist.[4]

  1. ^ Catzeflis, F., Weksler, M. & Bonvicino, C. 2008. Myoprocta pratti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 31 March 2015.
  2. ^ Pocock, R. I. (1913). "Description of a new Species of Agouti (Myoprocta)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 8. 12 (67): 110–111. doi:10.1080/00222931308693378.
  3. ^ Voss, R.S., Lunde, D.P. and Simmons, N.B. 2001. Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 2. Nonvolant species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 263:1-236.
  4. ^ Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (7 October 2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. pp. 328–. ISBN 978-0-8018-9533-3.