Mexican Agouti
Dasyprocta mexicana
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Epic
- Observations
- 337
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- Conservation
- Critically Endangered
Description
The Mexican agouti, (Dasyprocta mexicana), also known as the Mexican black agouti, is a species of rodent in the genus Dasyprocta. This species was first discovered in 1860 in Veracruz, Mexico and described by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mexican agouti”.