Dasyprocta punctata Gray, 1842

Hidalgo-Mihart, Mircea G., Contreras-Moreno, Fernando M., Jesús-de la Cruz, Alejandro, Juárez-López, Rugieri, Bravata de la Cruz, Yaribeth, Pérez-Solano, Luz A., Hernández-Lara, Carolina, Friedeberg, Diana, Thornton, Dan & Koller-González, Juan M., 2017, Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in the wetlands of Laguna de Terminos and Pantanos de Centla, Mexico, Check List 13 (6), pp. 711-726 : 718

Dasyprocta punctata Gray, 1842

Material examined. Table 2; Figure 12.

Dasyprocta punctata is a large orange-brown rodent with a rounded back and long skinny legs. The study area is at the edge of this species’ distribution range (Hall 1981). However, there is a second potential species, D. mexicana Saussure, 1860 which differs from D. punctata by its black, rather than orange-brown fur. All our photographs of Dasyprocta belong to D. punctata .